When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration of a hot Jupiter orbiting a red dwarf star. | Credit: T. Müller (MPIA/HdA) Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect a new “super-Jupiter” planet that is one of the coldest worlds ever… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration of a gas giant exoplanet evolving into a hot Jupiter. | Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva There’s more to a distant gas giant planet than meets the eye. Astronomers have discovered that an extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,” not… Read More »
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered that one of the closest “hot Jupiter” planets to Earth smells like rotten eggs. The planet already has a bad reputation for deadly glass rain, extreme temperatures, and sideways winds of 5,000 mph (8,046 kph), but this discovery makes this world seem even less friendly.… Read More »
A planet beyond the solar system that has been compared to Spock’s home world of Vulcan in the Star Trek series may be nothing more than an illusion caused by a strained star. The extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet” (a term for a planet outside our solar system), is proposed to orbit a star called 40… Read More »
Astronomers have discovered a new planetary oddity beyond the solar system, as soft and light as cotton candy. The extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,” called WASP-193 b, is about 1.5 times as wide as Jupiter but has just over one-tenth the mass of the gas giant in the solar system. This makes it the second lightest… Read More »
Citizen scientists mining data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered a record-breaking world and gave it a memorable nickname to match: Percival, after the father of Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books. . But in more formal terms, the extrasolar planet or “exoplanet” is called TOI 4633 c.… Read More »
New research has a pair of scientists channeling Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars: A New Hope in the detection of two moons orbiting planets outside the solar system. In short, they’re not sure that humanity’s first exomoon detections were accurate. In fact, the same findings also showed that echoeons in general can only manifest themselves… Read More »
Astronomers have discovered a massive extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,” orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star that is too small to host such a world, challenging scientists’ models of how planets and planetary systems are born. The planet in question, called LHS 3154 b, is 13 times larger than itself. SoilIn other words, it has a mass… Read More »