Some exoplanets have characteristics totally alien to our Solar System. Hot Jupiters are one such type. They can have orbital ...

A new study published by an international team of researchers led by Taro Matsuo, an astrophysicist at Nagoya University in Japan, argues that this evolutionary trend made sense 3 billion years when ...

The Unistellar citizen science program, a collaboration between the SETI Institute and Unistellar, had an impressive 2024 ...

Astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an alien planet's atmosphere for the first time, revealing a layered system of extreme winds.

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so closely that a year lasts just 30 Earth hours. One side of the planet is ...

A recent study has unveiled how chemical elements and powerful winds shape the atmosphere of a planet far beyond our solar system.

For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside our solar system.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected potential biosignatures on the exoplanet K2-18b, raising new excitement about the ...

Scientists have mapped the atmosphere of WASP-121 b, revealing iron rains, extreme winds, and unusual weather.

Astronomers have discovered by looking through an exoplanet's atmosphere and mapping its 3D structure for the first time ...

It is so ferociously hot that the “exoplanet” features iron in the form of a gas in one layer of its atmosphere, while a jet ...