21 September 2020
Jupiter could have 600 moons, a new study says
...now a new study from scientists in Canada say that the gas giant could be hiding more moons in its orbit and suggest that... to be in retrograde with Jupiter, meaning they orbit the gas giant “backwards” with respect to the planet’s rotation. Ashton and...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... the 1990s, were extreme worlds known as hot Jupiters – gas giants with a mass and radius similar to Jupiter, but with ...decade several gigantic ground-based telescopes will be built: the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)...
03 September 2015
Cassini discovers potentially ‘younger’ ring portion on Saturn
A new study in Icarus journal by Cassini scientists suggests that one of the rings on the gas giant is not like the others. A higher-that-expected temperature of a part of one of the rings has suggested to the ...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... responsible for a major fraction of Earth’s volatile inventory, its volatile content would be much [1000x] larger if gas giant planets were absent.’ This interpretation implies that Wetherill’s results were based upon a complete absence of a Jupiter...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
...are currently known about. The relative scarcity of these mini gas giants is most likely due to the ill-fated nature of these... of other planets ranging from a warm giant orbiting a host star (HD1397b), a gas giant whizzing around a cool dwarf star in ...
11 December 2019
Water abundance lower than expected on exoplanets
... to other elements, rather than low overall metallicities. On the other hand, abundances for Na and K abundances in the gas giants are generally consistent with what is expected. As such, this poses problems for future atmospheric modelling which...
