• Space
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • August 13th, 2015
Baby Jupiter Discovered Merely 100 Light-Years Away

Baby Jupiter Discovered Merely 100 Light-Years Away

This is probably what our Jupiter looked like in its infancy

  • Space
  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • August 19th, 2013
Free-Roaming Exoplanets May Be Born Away from Any Star

Free-Roaming Exoplanets May Be Born Away from Any Star

Dense gas clouds may lead to the formation of gas giants without any star around

Astronomers Now Know What Four Strange Exoplanets Are Made Up Of

Astronomers Now Know What Four Strange Exoplanets Are Made Up Of

The gas giants have long interested astronomers and were the first to be directly observed

First Photo of a Planet Circling Two Stars

First Photo of a Planet Circling Two Stars

The planet is a gas giant, 12 to 14 times larger than Jupiter

NASA Telescopes Find Extreme Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf

NASA Telescopes Find Extreme Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf

These failed stars have weather systems similar to those of gas giants

  • Space
  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • January 3rd, 2013
ALMA Sees Two Baby Planets Feeding Around a Nearby Star, a First-of-Its Kind Find

ALMA Sees Two Baby Planets Feeding Around a Nearby Star, a First-of-Its Kind Find

The radio telescope saw the exoplanets guzzling up gas from their surrounding cloud

Cassini's New Orbit Reveals Saturn's Rings Again

Cassini's New Orbit Reveals Saturn's Rings Again

The spacecraft has not seen them like this in over two years

  • Space
  • By Gabriel Gache
  • July 25th, 2008
CoRoT Discovers Odd Planetary System

CoRoT Discovers Odd Planetary System

CoRoT-Exo-4b's synchronous orbit spawns new mystery for astronomers

  • Space
  • By Gabriel Gache
  • June 3rd, 2008
Weighing the Coldest Known Brown Dwarf Star

Weighing the Coldest Known Brown Dwarf Star

Theoretical brown dwarf mass predictions don't match observations

  • Space
  • By Gabriel Gache
  • May 10th, 2008
MARVELS to Find Hundreds of Exoplanets

MARVELS to Find Hundreds of Exoplanets

The project is due to start this fall

Experiment Recreates Conditions inside Gas Giants

Experiment Recreates Conditions inside Gas Giants

Researchers extract helium equation of state at high pressure and temperature

  • Space
  • By Gabriel Gache
  • April 11th, 2008
Link Between Stars and Planets Found

Link Between Stars and Planets Found

The coldest brown dwarf ever discovered

  • Space
  • By Gabriel Gache
  • March 27th, 2008
Giant Planet is Taking Shape in Star System

Giant Planet is Taking Shape in Star System

First direct observation of a possible forming planet

  • Space
  • By Gabriel Gache
  • March 20th, 2008
Methane Found on Distant Exo-Planet

Methane Found on Distant Exo-Planet

First detection of organic molecules on an exo-planet