An international group of researchers including University of Arizona astronomers, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, ...

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made groundbreaking observations of WASP-107b, an exoplanet ...

"Our observations indicate the presence of powerful iron winds, probably fuelled by a hot spot in the atmosphere." ...

Due to how their air moves, the atmospheric conditions of hot exoplanets are expected to change between morning and evening.

Can an exoplanet’s atmosphere exhibit east-west asymmetry, meaning its two edges are vastly different from each other? This ...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to detect atmospheric asymmetry in the exoplanet WASP-107b. This ...

Astronomers from the University of Arizona, along with an international group of researchers, observed the atmosphere of a ...

In an eccentric twist, the hot Jupiter spotted in 2005 was found to be in an orbit just over six days long. The recently ...

Astronomers find extreme weather on WASP-76b, with iron winds and molten metal rain due to its proximity to its star.

LTT 1445 Ac is roughly the size of Earth and about 22 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The planet orbits the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...