A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this ...
An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.
"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...
"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...
A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...
New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.
An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...
That’s a relatively pleasant wind speed compared to a giant, puffy planet located around 500 lightyears away from Earth. Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a ...