Astronomers are uncovering new insights into exoplanetary atmospheres, and a recent study on WASP-107 b has turned conventional models on their heads. This distant planet, with its incredibly low ...

NASA’s current exoplanet count stands at 5,483, but there are a further 9,770 candidates that still need to be studied and confirmed as planets. Beta Pictoris b may be one among many ...

Gaia-4b, an exoplanet about 244 light-years away, is twelve times more massive than Jupiter. Credit: ESA / Gaia / DPAC / M. Marcussen illustration Scientists have dubbed the exoplanet, a world ...

The team behind this research reached this conclusion by studying 20 extrasolar planets or "exoplanets" as they crossed, or "transited," the faces of their parent stars using the Hubble Space ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a mind-bending 5.5 miles per second (9 kilometers per second). The speed of sound on Earth is roughly 0.21 miles per second (0. ...

An exoplanet called WASP-69 just earned some bragging rights with its gigantic tail, stretching longer than 40 Earths. The long structure, which is made up of gas leaking from the exoplanet's ...

Since the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries. Many of these exoplanets are ...

A new exoplanet, TOI-6038 A b, has been discovered orbiting a bright late F-type star about 578 light-years away. It is approximately 6.41 times the radius and 78.5 times the mass of Earth, with a ...

Exoplanet LTT9779 b, which orbits a star about 262 light-years from Earth, is so reflective it acts almost like a mirror, the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a press release. This planet's hot ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — For the first time, astronomers have taken a direct look at an exoplanet’s insides. An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new ...

The AstroAI initiative, launched in 2023, uses AI to search for life on exoplanets, such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could ...