A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this ...

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

Their findings, published in Nature Astronomy, revealed a surprising east-west asymmetry in atmospheric properties. "This is the first time the east-west asymmetry of any exoplanet has ever been ...

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 ...

according to a study published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. An animated visual of the exoplanet reveals a gnarly scene as the winds pummel the equator of WASP-127b with extreme ...

“This result is really important for the next decade of exoplanet research, because eyes are shifting toward this population of stars,” said astronomy doctoral student Sheila Sagear at the ...

The exoplanet weighs about the same as 30 Earths, while Jupiter weighs more than 300, making WASP-107b one of the least dense known planets, NASA said. That was odd because it is less hot and less ...

Zach Berta-Thompson observes transiting exoplanets -- those that pass in front of their stars as seen from Earth, resulting in periodic dimmings. Specializing in time-series photometry and ...

Astronomy is arguably the oldest science, and has featured strongly throughout the history of Nature — the first quasar, the first exoplanet, the nature of spiral nebulae, to name but a few of ...

South Africa has taken one giant leap into exoplanet discovery capabilities ... National Strategy for Multiwavelength Astronomy. Deputy director-general for research development and support ...