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.
Tag: planets
Stunning close-up views of scorching hot Mercury may surprisingly reveal ice in its craters
ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo mission recently completed its last flyby of Mercury, revealing stunning details about the planet's volcanic plains ...
The Trappist-1 exoplanets could be worlds of water or rust
The Trappist-1 exoplanets are comprised of similar materials to Earth but their lower density could indicate radically different worlds.
Unique 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite is a remnant of the early solar system
It's older than Earth itself!
Crowdsourcing astronomy: Citizen scientists discover new rocky planets locked in resonance
Citizen scientists found five "musical" exoplanet.
You can now use Google Maps to explore other moons and planets
You can explore the solar system from the comfort of your home.
Conditions on early-Venus might have allowed for an ocean of liquid water
Well, they don't anymore.
Twitterers compete with suggestions for newly discovered exoplanets’ names — hilarity ensues
Anyone care to wager which name popped up instantly?
Venus could once have been a very welcoming planet, NASA study found
Now? Not so much.
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovers 104 new planets outside of Milky Way
Of these planets, four are believed to potentially be similar to Earth.
New class of star-stripped super-Earths discovered
Astrophysicists have discovered a new class of exoplanets whose atmospheres and volatile elements have been blown away by the star ...
Eight planets and a dwarf in one
Planetary Suite by Steve Guildea; Oil on Canvas, 9 Panels 6'x13'3"(Collection of Merrimack College) This magnificent painting by Steve Gildea ...
Galaxy is full of starless Jupiter-like planets
Finding new planets is interesting an remarkable, but finding a whole new class of planets - that's definitely something extraordinary. ...
How many planets are in the Milky Way? Over 50 billion
Yes, you've read that right. There are over 50 billion planets in our galaxy alone, according to the Kepler telescope, ...
Astronomers upset the theory of planetary formation
The discovery of 9 new planets raises some serious questions on the matter of how planets are formed. Two astronomers ...
New planet close to size of Earth found
The Planet Researchers have long been interested in finding other planets that have approximately the same size as our mother ...
