Safety zone saves giant moons from fatal plunge Numerical simulations show that the temperature gradient in the gas disk around a young gas giant planet could play a critical role in the development of a […]
Distant giant planets form differently than ‘failed stars’ A team of astronomers led by Brendan Bowler of The University of Texas at Austin has probed the formation process of giant exoplanets and brown dwarfs, a […]
One small grain of moon dust, one giant leap for lunar studies Back in 1972, NASA sent their last team of astronauts to the Moon in the Apollo 17 mission. These astronauts brought some of […]
There’s a Giant Mystery Hiding Inside Every Atom in the Universe No one really knows what happens inside an atom. No one really knows what happens inside an atom. But two competing groups of scientists think […]
Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy’s halo Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope, a team of astronomers has captured for the first time an image of large-scale, […]
First giant planet around white dwarf found Researchers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have, for the first time, found evidence of a giant planet associated with a white dwarf star. The planet orbits the hot […]