"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 ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

Transmission spectroscopy observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show the detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of the gas giant exoplanet WASP-39b. Time-series observations from ...

Learn how researchers may have discovered an exomoon about 635 light-years away orbiting gas giant exoplanet WASP-4b. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

An artist's impression of the exoplanet Gaia-4b orbiting its star ... Rocky planets, or the rocky cores of giant planets, need a ready supply of heavy elements in order to form.