Scientists using NASA’s Kepler, a space telescope, recently discovered six planets made of a mix of rock and gases orbiting a single sun-like star, known as Kepler-11, which is located approximately 2 ...
For almost a decade, astronomers have been searching for a ninth planet in the solar system. Recently, new evidence of ...
An animation posted to Twitter has shocked social media users by showing the impressive size of Jupiter and just how rapidly the solar system's largest planet rotates. The animation posted by ...
There’s something about comparing the sizes of unthinkably large objects that’s endlessly intriguing. Looking at a comparison of all the various sizes of stars in the universe, for example, makes for ...
We have detected only one transiting planet that has a mass below 10 Earth masses. This world, CoRoT-7b (named after the European Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits satellite) has a radius ...