News

Alpha Centauri, part of the three-star system closet to our own, is often posed in science fiction as humanity's first hop ...
A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the ...
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha ...
NASA artist's depiction of an extra-solar system crowded with giant planets. Scientists have found that the presence of gas giants in a solar system is likely to prevent life from forming.
A gas giant is a large planet that is not primarily composed of rock or other solid matter. Gas giants may have a rocky or metallic core—in fact, such a core is thought to be required for a ...
But not every gas giant is so lucky; some of them should be too close to their parent stars, where their volatile gas atmospheres are boiled away. Here’s what’s left behind.
Giants ace Logan Webb cruised through five innings before the San Diego Padres got to him in San Francisco's 4-1 loss Monday ...
Russian gas giant Gazprom on Thursday denounced a move by Moldova's gas authority to withdraw the licence from its local ...