An international team of astronomers have been able to probe the atmosphere of an exoplanet like never before. Exoplanet ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by ...

Around a star 880 light-years from Earth orbits one of the wildest, most extreme exoplanets we've found to date.

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these "toasted marshmallow" planets could be more complicated than thought.

The exoplanet, discovered in 2009, remained elusive due to dense clouds. Now, scientists have peered through with the James ...

WASP-121b is tidally locked, meaning the planet has a scorching hot "dayside" that permanently faces that stellar parent and a cooler night side that perpetually faces out into space. The dayside ...

The exoplanet is also likely tidally locked to its star the same way the ... the presence of carbon monoxide and water vapor in the planet's upper atmosphere. In studying that spectra further ...