Hot Jupiters, giant planets that circle their stars in just a few days, have long defied simple explanations of how planetary ...

The first exoplanet ever discovered in 1995 was what we now call a "hot Jupiter," a planet as massive as Jupiter with an ...

An illustration of Mimas’s ice shell evolution, in which the changes in ice shell thickness (y-axis) lag behind the eccentricity decay (inverted x-axis). Time increases to the right of the plot, while ...

Professor John Chiang of UC Berkeley explains the impact of Earth's axial tilt and orbital eccentricity on global climate. He highlights their influence on seasonal variations, including monsoon ...

Hot Jupiters were once cosmic oddities, but unraveling how they moved so close to their stars has remained a stubborn mystery ...

In this video, we dive into the fascinating theory of the Milankovitch Cycles — an astronomical explanation for ice ages, ...

This artist’s impression shows a Jupiter-like exoplanet that is on its way to becoming a hot Jupiter — a large, Jupiter-like exoplanet that orbits very close to its star. NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva ...

We know Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, but we rarely observed or heard about ‘Hot Jupiter’, that are ...

A passing star which blew past our solar system nearly 3 million years ago could have altered the Earth’s orbit, researchers found. The study, published last week in the journal The Astrophysical ...

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period of rapid warming 56 million years ago, saw temperatures increase by approximately 5 degrees Celsius over a few thousand years, resulting in ...