A Gas Giant 500 Light-Years Away Has the Fastest Winds Ever Recorded: A Staggering 33,000 km/h
The fastest planetary winds ever found are tearing across a distant gas giant.
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Saturn’s rings are raining down — in about 100 million years, they’ll be gone
If you like it then you should have kept the rings on it.
It Is Possible Jupiter Could Support Life, Scientists Say
The chances of it happening are pretty slim though.
NASA cancels maneuver to get Juno closer to Jupiter due to faulty fuel valves — but that’s not bad news
Named after a capricious goddess, Juno lives up to her name.
Jupiter may have ousted a fifth gas giant out of the solar system 4 billion year ago
Our solar system likely had a fifth gas giant in its initial configuration, but the planet was ejected by Jupiter ...
Biggest Planets Started out as Tiny Pebbles
Gas giants like Saturn or Jupiter may have formed not from a planetary core, but rather from tiny pebbles that ...
Closest rogue planet discovered is just 100 light-years away
Like in a scene from a Sci-fi novel, about 100 light years away, somewhere in the constellation Doradus, a planet ...
Stars create gaps devoid of gas giants, supercomputer simulation shows – contradicted by our own solar system
Gas giants might just be the most whimsical planets of all: they don't just settle at any old point on ...
Astronomers unveil densest rocky planet: ‘super rocky exotic Earth’
The planet in case is 55 Cancri e, and it's 60 per cent larger in diameter than Earth but eight ...
