Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...
Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing ...
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 ...
For the first time, scientists have produced a 3D temperature map of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-18b, a gas giant that is so ...
A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search ...
As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...
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First 3D Map of an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere Revealed

The first world beyond our Solar System to be mapped in three dimensions a gas giant almost ten times more massive than ...
In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...
To fix the problem, former University of Sydney Ph.D. students Max Charles and Louis Desdoigts developed a neural network, a ...
Ageing stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and the University of ...
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket will launch the big and powerful ViaSat-3 F2 satellite to orbit today (Nov. 5), ...