Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

"If Jupiter doesn’t have a surface, what does it have? " ...

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

Saturn's Rings and Tilt Could Be the ... Researchers have now developed a single atmospheric model that matches observations of both planets.

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes ...

For the most part, these moons (such as Europa or Enceladus) have been gravitationally bound to the gas giants Jupiter or Saturn. Recently, though, planetary ... a computer model to test an ...