The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.

That red-tinted iron oxide disintegrated into dust and spread across the planet on wind currents for billions of years—as it continues doing today. However, different environmental conditions ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

We have found that mechano-sensitive feedback on cytoskeletal tension gives rise to morphological bistability, and that the same mechanical perturbation can have drastically different effects on ...

and how common the different types are. What we lack is a good sense of what that implies in terms of the conditions on the planets themselves. Kepler can tell us how big a planet is, but it doesn ...

Keep reading to learn more about Earth's different layers, its atmosphere, and what makes the "blue planet" unique. Earth is made out of different layers, and those layers get hotter and more ...

The planet, which is 900 light years away, is a vast ball of gas double the size of Jupiter ... least three distinct layers of gas moving in different directions around the planet – a structure ...