This allowed for the formation of the gas giants—Jupiter and Saturn—and the ice giants—Uranus and Neptune—which contain significant amounts of these ices and gases. As planets formed and ...

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

Narrator: Further from the Sun, in the outer reaches of the solar system, we find the gas planets. Much larger than the rocky planets, these cosmic giants are accompanied by numerous moons.

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Because gas giants pull in huge amounts of matter during accretion, their formation and migration through space also affects the development of rocky planets elsewhere in a protoplanetary disk.

So the new discovery is a "key piece of proof" that far-off planets can form in a similar ... our solar system really is—or how normal." Young Gas Giant HR 8799 e (NIRCam Spectrum) / Credit ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system ... which could lead to key insights on gas giant formation throughout the ...

From there, we can try to get a sense of how weird our solar system really is — or how normal ... gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn. JWST also detected infrared light emanating from the innermost ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 light years from Earth — an astonishingly eagle-eyed feat of cosmic photography ...

These planets have larger sizes and masses. Jovian planets do not have solid surfaces. They are sometimes called gas giants because they are large and made mostly of gases. Small amounts of rocky ...

For the first time, NASA's Juno spacecraft has observed powerful solar winds squishing Jupiter's magnetic field, likened to a ...