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What is a Terrestrial Planet?
Earth and all the other inner planets of the Solar System have something in common: they are composed of silicate…
What are Hot Jupiters?
When astronomers first discovered other planets, they were completely unlike anything we've ever found in the Solar System. These first…
Saturn Storm’s ‘Suck Zone’ Shown In Spectacular Cassini Shots
Checking out the above pictures of a Saturn hurricane, one can't help but wonder: how close was the Cassini spacecraft…
Clouds of Sand and Iron Swirl in a Failed Star’s Extreme Atmosphere
Artist's concept of brown dwarf 2MASSJ22282889-431026 (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The complex weather patterns within the atmosphere of a rapidly-rotating brown dwarf have been…
Shedding Some Light on a Dark Discovery
[/caption] Earlier this month astronomers released news of the darkest exoplanet ever seen: discovered in 2006, the gas giant TrES-2b…
Astronomers Discover a Dark Alien World
[/caption] An exoplanet has been discovered by astronomers that reflects less than one percent of the light it receives from…
Ten Interesting Facts About Uranus
The gas (and ice) giant known as Uranus is a fascinating place. The seventh planet from out Sun, Uranus is…