An interstellar object, possibly 50 times Jupiter’s mass, passed through the solar system, leaving scientists intrigued about its impact. 'Gold was not born on Earth': The explosive cosmic truth ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

When Jupiter was young, about 4.5 billion years ago, a protoplanet with 10 times the mass of Earth crashed head-on into its surface. The impact shook Jupiter to its core - literally. That's the ...

Gaia-4b, a massive exoplanet, is the first confirmed using Gaia’s astrometric technique, marking a milestone in space exploration. Dangerous emoji meanings exposed: Are your kids using these ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new warm Jupiter exoplanet located more than 1,000 light years away. The newfound alien ...

Pairs of planetary-mass objects, floating freely in space, intrigue scientists with their nature and origin. With masses comparable to that of Jupiter, these entities are often observed in young star ...

For example, the gravitational field strength on Earth is 10 N/kg whereas on Jupiter it is 24.7 N/kg. This means that a mass of 50 kg will weigh just over double on Jupiter than it would on Earth.

The object can be found 320 light years away from Earth, a distance equivalent to the size of the Tarantula's Nebula and it was uncovered by Maritza Soto, a Ph.D student in the Astronomy Department of ...

Like an ambiguous game of telephone, messages get lost in translation when Mercury squares Jupiter, and no one’s quite sure what’s going on! Read between the lines, or swim in a sea of confusion!