A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, ...

Scientists are discovering more exoplanets, but they’re still figuring out how these planets form. Jupiter-like exoplanets ...

In October 1995, after decades of serious effort, astronomers announced the first discovery of a planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...

Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, only a select few show promise. Here we look at some of the most habitable ...

The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

Learn more about the atmosphere of WASP-121b, or Tylos, whose winds are layered like no other planet’s.

A groundbreaking collaboration between, Arizona State University, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is unlocking the ...

Exoplanets are the celestial bodies orbiting stars other than our Sun. Their small size makes them difficult to detect from Earth, particularly as they appear much dimmer than their parent stars ...

Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by ...

This exoplanet’s extreme climate defies all models. WASP-121b is one of the most studied exoplanets. Known for its extreme conditions—such as clouds of metal vapor—it belong ...

A diagram illustrates the three layers of winds that blow around the exoplanet Tylos. ESO / M. Kornmesser In their study, Seidel and colleagues were able to probe the three-dimensional structure of ...