The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

For years, astronomers have searched the cosmos for planets capable of supporting life. Most efforts focus on the "habitable zone," the region around a star where a planet could have liquid water. But ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

The gas giants are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, according to a study in The Astrophysical Journal. The HR ...

Gas giants would be forced to supply more energy to the domestic energy market under gas reservation plans that could be ...

This allowed for the formation of the gas giants—Jupiter and Saturn—and ... including amino acids and nucleobases—the building blocks of life. These findings support the idea that molecules ...

Jupiter-like exoplanets, for instance, were initially thought to take nearly 3 to 5 million years to fully form; recent observations now suggest that for a gas giant like Jupiter, this process is ...