Exoplanet's Winds 'Challenge Our Understanding of How Weather Works'
"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.
Could Alien Life Thrive on Planets Orbiting Dead Stars? New Study Suggests Yes
Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...
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Where Are the Universe’s Missing Planets?
Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...
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Temperamental stars could be ruining our view of thousands of exoplanets, Hubble Telescope finds
As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...
Scientists Just Found a Hidden Planet That’s Absolutely Massive
Gaia-4b, a giant exoplanet orbiting a small star, is the first planet confirmed using Gaia’s astrometric technique.
'Temperamental' stars may be distorting exoplanet observations
"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...
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Fastest exoplanet ever is dragged through space at 1.2 million mph by hypervelocity star
Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...
Planet's Record-Smashing Iron Wind Hides a Climate Unlike Anything We've Seen
Of the nearly 6,000 confirmed exoplanets in the Milky Way, Tylos has one of the most-studied atmospheres out there. It's what we call a hot Jupiter – a world comparable in size to our own gas giants, ...