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Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system developed with gas giants far from our sun, some planetary systems consist of ...

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A massive volcano on Jupiter's moon, Io is more powerful than all of Earth's power stations combined - says American space agency, Nasa. The huge volcano was recently detected during flyby of the Juno ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense atmosphere formed.

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) per hour, but they are not the strongest in our solar system. The ...

eventually planning to "map deep water clouds using the Hubble data to define 3D cloud structures in Jupiter’s atmosphere," according to NASA.Since the human eye cannot actually detect ...

The planet is slightly larger than Jupiter, but has only a fraction of ... supersonic winds are raging on the planet. "Part of the atmosphere of this planet is moving towards us at a high velocity ...

The path toward intelligent life, they argue, may be more of a predictable process, unfolding as global conditions allow in a ...

Its atmosphere is about 2,060 degrees Fahrenheit, with its polar regions less hot than the rest. Like Jupiter, WASP-127b is composed mainly of hydrogen and helium, but its atmosphere also contains ...