About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

Austin (KXAN) — A tiny baby planet is making waves in the science community. Named WISPIT 2b, the growing planet is the first planet of its kind to be basically photographed growing inside its star’s ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.

A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery WASP-18b, a massive “ultra-hot Jupiter,” revealed striking temperature ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

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Jupiter will reach its highest point in the sky around dawn, when, from mid-northern latitudes, it will appear about 20 ...