18 April 2016
New Earth-like planet found in GJ 832 planetary system
...its relative position and its mass, it has been likened to Jupiter in our own solar system and it is assumed to play ... In our Solar System, Mercury orbits the Sun at 0.39 AU and Jupiter at 5.2 AU and between them sit a further three planets. It ...
28 October 2016
Temperature is the key to showing how gas giants form say researchers
...has only the same mass as Saturn instead of some Jupiter masses.” Despite these positive results, challenges still remain. ...the protoplanet has collapsed to the density of a planet like Jupiter, its disk will heat up more like it is undergoing ...
20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
... for example have a radius around four times that of Earth, whereas Jupiter and Saturn’s radius is 10 times that of Earth. It is easy... ways to the giant planet cores of our own neighbours (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune). Its not all good news ...
12 May 2021
Scientists discover liquid water inside a meteorite
... conditions would place the site of formation far outside of Earth’s orbit, likely beyond even the orbit of Jupiter,” Tsuchiyama said in a statement on the Ritsumeikan University’s website. This idea backs up previous studies which suggest that...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
... received of the effect of the collision of fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet with Jupiter. They showed that the area of the resulting catastrophe in Jupiter’s atmosphere covered an area the size of the Earth. Over the last 600...
March 2016
Space for art
...solar system. The twin spacecraft revealed stunning details about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – using each planet’s ... stage for such ambitious orbiter missions as Galileo to Jupiter and Cassini to Saturn. Today both Voyager spacecraft continue...
