A distant Jupiter-like planet has revealed an unexpected secret: water-ice clouds hiding in its atmosphere. The discovery, made with JWST, shows these alien worlds are more complex than scientists ...

A giant planet circling a nearby star has given astronomers a rare look at what a colder, more Jupiter-like world can be like ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

A team of astronomers led by Elisabeth Matthews at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a discovery that highlights the limits of most current models of exoplanet atmospheres: ...

Scientists identify 45 potentially habitable exoplanets, using exact data and quotes to guide future telescopes in the search ...

A newly-discovered planet named Enaiposha, GJ 1214 b, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a ...

Cirrus-like clouds have been discovered on a giant planet 12 light-years away, a finding that could change the search for ...

This discovery is out of this world. For the first time since its operations began in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a direct image, published by the journal Nature, of a new ...

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TOI-201 is one of the few systems whose changes can be observed by humans in real time.

A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft, astronomers have witnessed a distant, Jupiter-size world "shrinking" as its host star bombards it with heavy radiation. The extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," is ...