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

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

What happens to planets as their stars age and come closer to death? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly ...

Astronomers have discovered phosphine gas in the atmosphere of an ancient brown dwarf, Wolf 1130C, using the James Webb Space ...

How do moons form around gas giant planets? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes ...

Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...

Researchers at McGill University and collaborating institutions have mapped the atmospheric features of a planetary-mass ...

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as circumstantial evidence accumulates and the list of candidates grows, the discovery of ...

Phosphorus is one of six essential elements that make life on Earth possible. When it bonds with hydrogen, it forms phosphine (PH3), a highly toxic ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Researchers have successfully mapped the atmospheric features of a unique, planetary-mass brown dwarf, often referred to as a ...