The James Webb Space Telescope tracked an ultra-hot gas giant called WASP-121 b as it shed helium from its atmosphere across ...

Nearly a decade after astronomers first proposed that a massive, unseen world is warping the paths of the most distant known ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Astronomy. The original story “ JWST finds rare planet with ...

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars ...

Scientists find strong evidence that magnetic fields shape the weather on distant exoplanets for the first time.

In an astronomical first, researchers have measured the magnetic fields of 7 "hot Jupiter" planets beyond our solar system — ...

Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant exoplanets form and what their atmospheres can look like, after using the James Webb Telescope to image two young exoplanets in ...

An artist’s depiction of an exoplanet larger than Earth and smaller than Neptune. A blue planet in the foreground blocks the light of a star. Recent high-temperature, high-pressure experiments suggest ...

What is Planet Nine, and where is it? The question has fascinated astronomers for years. Scientists believe a massive ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this search. However, the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Olivia Harper Wilkins, Dickinson College (THE CONVERSATION) Astronomers can use ...