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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a new Jupiter-sized exoplanet that possesses less than one-third of the mass of the solar system's largest planet, giving it a density similar to a marshmallow. The team ...