A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...

Black holes are just one of myriad marvels ... unpredictable flashes of high-energy photons coming from space. Gas-giant planet—A giant planet with a massive and deep atmosphere that surrounds ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. This artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet WASP-107 b could ...

Giant, gas-rich planets may ... but closer inspection revealed the planet, called PSR B1620-26b, to be quite weird. It orbits not one but two objects, a pulsar and a white dwarf.

When two giant planets collide, an even bigger world may be born. Based on new simulations, scientists believe that giant gas planets across the universe can often collide and merge into even ...

The discovery of an extraordinary multi-planet system has demonstrated that ... Hot Jupiters are gas giants with masses often many times that of the Jupiter in our solar system.

Based on new simulations, scientists believe that giant gas planets across the universe can often collide and merge into even bigger gas plants — behemoths called "super-Jupiters." In the cosmic ...