Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have taken the closest-ever look at the dusty regions where planets form, offering new insight into the earliest stages of ...

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing ...

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For the first time, scientists have produced a 3D temperature map of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-18b, a gas giant that is so ...

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...

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A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search ...

A new study suggests mysterious water worlds may be manufacturing their own oceans through chemical reactions deep within ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope produced the first 3D atmospheric map of exoplanet WASP-18b, an ultra-hot Jupiter 400 light-years away.

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A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.