Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...

Towering over California’s Giant Forest, the 2,200-year-old General Sherman tree is the largest on Earth by volume. But how ...

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on the gas giant—so thick that no spacecraft has been able to measure exactly ...

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In the 1970s, she photographed Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry on wild nights at Studio 54. Now she’s chronicling a new generation. Credit...By John Taggart Supported by By Alex Vadukul On a brisk ...

Is the gas giant about to have a close encounter of the 3I kind? Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that 3I/ATLAS’ bizarre trajectory suggests that it’s sending “satellites” to Jupiter to gather intel ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These late-forming bodies match the ages and ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Jupiter is not quite as large as astronomers thought, according to the first measurements of its radius taken in more than 40 years. Jupiter is a gas giant and doesn’t have a solid outer surface like ...

The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers: an object so unfathomably dense and hot that it defies comprehension. Conventional ...

For years, scientists thought Jupiter’s strange interior was the result of a massive collision in its youth. But new research suggests that the planet’s diffuse, “fuzzy” core wasn’t born from a ...