At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

The giant protoplanetary disk offers clues to how gas and dust organize themselves around a star to form planets.

Under extreme planetary conditions, water turns into a strange, electricity-conducting solid hidden deep inside giant planets.

For decades, Uranus and Neptune have been filed neatly into the “ice giant” drawer, shorthand for worlds built mostly from ...

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Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...

Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A novel unified hydrodynamic model proposes a single mechanism to explain the contrasting equatorial jet stream directions on gas giants (eastward on Jupiter/Saturn) and ice giants (westward on Uranus ...