The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...
"These results were a surprise – we found more stellar contamination of our data than we were expecting." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...
After cataloging thousands of worlds beyond our solar system, astronomers are now closing in on a far rarer prize: a moon ...
Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has spied helium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, WASP-107b, for the first time in history. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...
Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...