Voyager caught Uranus in a rare magnetic storm, and a 40-year mystery became a mission case for understanding volatile ice giants.

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a machine-learning model that predicts potential planetary systems with Earth-like ...

Sometimes planetary physics is like being in a snowball fight. Most people, if handed an already-formed snowball, can use their experience and the feel of the ball to guess what kind of snow it is ...

For the first time in its history, humanity is assembling a coordinated system to find, track, and deflect asteroids that ...

An inside-out planetary system around the star LHS 1903 is turning everything that astronomers know about planet formation upside down.

Thomas White is an associate professor in the Department of Physics, and he’s interested in learning about what’s on the inside of planets and the states of matter it exists in. “The easiest question ...

Eye on the universe: the planetary nebula NGC 7294, or the 'Helix Nebula', is nearby in the Milky Way. However, astronomers have managed to observe similar objects at much greater distances. (Courtesy ...

Researchers in the US have simulated a magnetic field structure normally produced by the core of a planet, and they say that their design could lead to an efficient way of harnessing nuclear fusion ...

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Sometimes planetary physics is like being in a snowball fight. Most people, if handed an already-formed snowball, can use their experience and the feel of the ball to guess what ...