What can sub-Neptune exoplanets teach astronomers about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in ...
Scientists have long assumed that, like rocky planets such as Earth, sub-Neptunes begin with molten magma oceans. Their thick ...
Through international collaboration, a team of astronomers has confirmed two exoplanets and found hints of a third exoplanet ...
The largest known exoplanet has seven times the radius of Jupiter, 752 times its mass, and would take five months to circumnavigate by plane.
Using JWST, scientists mapped WASP-18b’s atmosphere in 3D, revealing blazing regions where water molecules split apart.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing ...
Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...
As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery WASP-18b, a massive “ultra-hot Jupiter,” revealed striking temperature ...
About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...
WASHINGTON, DC – In a major development, Ashley Tellis, a long-time US government adviser and expert on India and South Asia, has been charged with unlawfully keeping national defense information and ...
Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...