Transmission strings reveal temperature differences around WASP-17b’s atmosphere, adding detail beyond an average planetary ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity ...

The Penn State Eberly College of Science and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics will host a free screening of the 2016 ...

James Webb reveals how powerful winds and extreme temperature differences create an unusual atmospheric bulge on the giant ...

Astronomers from Harvard and the University of Oregon have detected radio emissions originating directly from exoplanet Beta Pictoris b, located 63 light-years away. Recorded by South Africa's MeerKAT ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is now less than a year from reaching the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter. And it has already made some ...

Astronomers have discovered that a scorching-hot planet 320 light-years away shares a striking chemical similarity with its ...

Why Epsilon Indi Ab is attracting attentionA planet heavier than Jupiter, located 12 light-years awayAbout 12 light-years from Earth, there is a planet called Epsilon Indi Ab. Among planets outside ...

A world 20 light-years from Earth appears to have a much more orderly atmosphere than its constantly changing clouds suggest. Using observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...

Planets appear as perfectly round disks when they cross in front of their stars, and astronomers have long measured them that way. But a new analysis of the giant exoplanet WASP-17b shows that its ...

The icy giants Uranus and Neptune, long considered virtually identical twin planets, actually have different chemical ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that a turbulent world 20 light-years away has a surprisingly orderly weather ...