New observations of WD 1856 b, a gas giant closely orbiting a white dwarf, offer a preview of what could happen to Jupiter and Saturn after the sun dies in about five billion years.

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't have hard surfaces. Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants in our solar ...

Lording it over the heavens this month is the planet Jupiter, king of the gods in Roman mythology and the leading light of January’s sky. The planet is opposite to the Sun on 10 January, when it is ...

One night last fall, University of Cincinnati astrophysics graduate Paul Smith waited anxiously for data to start rolling across his computer screen from the James Webb Space Telescope a million miles ...

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2 A giant planet spent more than a decade concealed inside one of astronomy’s most closely ...