Meet Tylos: a gas giant 900 light years away and with a climate never seen before on any planet known to scientists.

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of ...

Some exoplanets have characteristics totally alien to our Solar System. Hot Jupiters are one such type. They can have orbital ...

A new study published by an international team of researchers led by Taro Matsuo, an astrophysicist at Nagoya University in Japan, argues that this evolutionary trend made sense 3 billion years when ...

Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...

The Unistellar citizen science program, a collaboration between the SETI Institute and Unistellar, had an impressive 2024 ...

Astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an alien planet's atmosphere for the first time, revealing a layered system of extreme winds.

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so closely that a year lasts just 30 Earth hours. One side of the planet is ...

A recent study has unveiled how chemical elements and powerful winds shape the atmosphere of a planet far beyond our solar system.

For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside our solar system.

Scientists have mapped the atmosphere of WASP-121 b, revealing iron rains, extreme winds, and unusual weather.