On February 15, 2013, the people of Chelyabinsk, Russia, witnessed something terrifying. A six-story-tall asteroid weighing nearly 10,000 metric tons tore through the atmosphere at more than 64,000 km ...

The Panel on Giant Planet Systems is one of six panels providing topical input to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey Steering Group. This panel will discuss the role played by ...

What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes ...