A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...

Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to make 1st 3D map of exoplanet — and it's so hot, it rips apart water ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

What can a 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach astronomers about the planet’s formation, evolution, and composition?

Researchers have developed a new technology that can shape the spectrum of light emitted from a laser frequency comb across ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named GJ 251c with a minimum mass about 3.84 times that of our own planet. The ...

A team from the University of Maryland and Cornell University developed the first three-dimensional temperature map of ...