The NASA James Webb Space Telescope has provided astronomers with an unprecedented glimpse of a distant exoplanet, shedding ...
Similar to Earth but incapable of sustaining life. Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing ...
The search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift. With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is poised to investigate seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the TRAPPIST-1 star, 40 light ...
From the brightness variations of its host star, an exoplanet’s size and other properties can be determined. In order to ...
As Earth Day approaches and the Wonder Theory newsletter celebrates three years of arriving in your inboxes, I look to the ...
Astronomers have spotted what they believe to be a rainbow-like phenomenon occurring on a planet outside our solar system for the first time, and it could reveal new insights about alien worlds.
In the constellation Virgo, 700 light years away from Earth, the planet WASP-39b orbits the star WASP-39. The gas giant, ...
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The sighting concerns the exoplanet WASP-76b, one side of which continuously faces its star. This ‘day side’ has temperatures exceeding 2,400 °C, because the planet orbits at just 3% of the ...