The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...
Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...
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 ...
A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.
TESS launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2018 to study exoplanets that transit their star from our perspective, meaning they ...
At a distance of160,000 light-years, an aging red supergiant star in a neighboring galaxy has become the subject of an ...