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 ...
Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...
As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...
A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search ...
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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 ...
A new study suggests mysterious water worlds may be manufacturing their own oceans through chemical reactions deep within ...
A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.
About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...
In a significant breakthrough, scientists have identified three Earth-sized exoplanets in a binary star system, potentially ...
When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...
A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...