Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a rogue planet or a "failed star." Either way, the world wanders the cosmos ...

Jupiter, the giant of our solar system, is home to a variety of fascinating phenomena. Among these, the Great Red Spot (GRS) ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 light-years from Earth,” NASA announced. Researchers recently used the ...

SIMP 0136 is a rapidly rotating, free-floating object roughly 13 times the mass of Jupiter, located in the ... you something about its surface and atmosphere, even if you couldn't make out the ...

The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

As NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new blog post, a new study published in Nature Astronomy using data from Juno suggests that Jupiter’s atmosphere includes around 0.25% water ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out ...

According to a new paper published in the journal Nature, astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of the layered atmosphere of one such ultra-hot Jupiter-size exoplanet, revealing powerful winds ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

This is the first discovery of these two species in any brown dwarf atmosphere. The study also found that each brown dwarf of WISE-0458 has a radius of about 0.81 Jupiter radii and the total mass ...