Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...
The largest known exoplanet has seven times the radius of Jupiter, 752 times its mass, and would take five months to ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a remarkable feat in the field of exoplanet studies by creating the first-ever 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere. This alien world, subjected to such ...
Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...
Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have taken the closest-ever look at the dusty regions where planets form, offering new insight into the earliest stages of ...
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...
A new study using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea serves up the closest-ever view of a planet-forming disk ...
When stars like the Sun run out of hydrogen in their cores, fusion slows and the outer layers balloon outward. The star can ...
Using JWST, scientists mapped WASP-18b’s atmosphere in 3D, revealing blazing regions where water molecules split apart.
A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.
It feels like I've been waiting 300 years for this 3,600-piece spaceship, the very first licensed Star Trek set that LEGO has ...
Experiments at high temperatures and pressures reveal chemistry that can generate water on the surface of exoplanets ...