YR4, once a potential Earth threat, likely originated from the main asteroid belt's central region, a surprising origin for ...

In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point ...

It is likely that the four large moons were formed at the same time as Jupiter and in its immediate vicinity. For the small moons, it is assumed that they are more likely to be asteroids captured by ...

The newfound alien world, designated TOI-2005 b, is about the size of Jupiter and orbits its host star on a highly eccentric orbit. The discovery was reported March 25 on the arXiv pre-print server.

Only two of the terrestrial planets have moons orbiting them: Jupiter ... orbit around the Sun. A day on Uranus is 17.25 Earth hours long. This is how long it takes Uranus to complete a single ...

Jupiter’s skies can glow with lights more ... But other models showed strong winds caused by the planet’s fast rotation would trap the heat near the poles, making wide-scale movement unlikely.

An object 13 times the size of the planet Jupiter is wandering uncontrollably ... planets that wander through space without orbit. There is also the possibility that it is a failed star.

It extends 7 million kilometers (4.35 million miles) in a Sunward direction and almost to the orbit of Saturn away from the Sun. The magnetosphere of Jupiter is 10 times stronger than Earth’s ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.