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A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

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With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...

Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Venus—will appear in the sky together in a special planet parade on Feb. 28.

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Jupiter, king of our Solar System’s planets, continues to dominate the night sky in February.  Lying inside the zodiac constellation Gemini (twins), which sits well up in the eastern sky, it is the ...

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Jupiter and Saturn host strikingly different polar storms, despite being similar giant planets, and scientists have long wondered why. New simulations suggest the answer may lie deep below the clouds.