The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres," according to the Hubble team. Credit: ...