The exoplanet, discovered in 2009, remained elusive due to dense clouds. Now, scientists have peered through with the James ...
This type of planet, with its unique composition, is only found outside our solar system. "GJ 1214b has been the white whale of exoplanet atmosphere characterisation – the whole community has been ...
Israeli astronomers report the detection of a new Jupiter-like exoplanet using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet ...
"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." WASP-121 b is the definition of an "extreme" exoplanet — it's so hot that it rains droplets of liquid iron.
Astronomers have identified a remarkable exoplanet, GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, which has challenged previous planetary classifications. Situated approximately 47 light-years from Earth ...
Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists ...
And astonishingly, it's managed to drag its exoplanet along, as the poor world hangs on for dear life. "We think this is a so-called super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star at a distance that ...
Since the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries. Many of these exoplanets are ...
Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets now in astronomers’ catalogs, the most intriguing yet might be one confirmed last week, a potentially habitable world of fire and ice twirling around a nearby ...
The exoplanet HD 20794 d, a super-Earth, has been discovered orbiting a G-type star 19.7 light-years away. It follows an eccentric orbit, oscillating in and out of the star's habitable zone, where ...