NASA is set to launch its latest mission, Pandora, in 2025 to study the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. With the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) oversubscribed, Pandora will play a crucial ...

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers. Most of the ...

If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the fastest-moving exoplanet system, nearly double our solar system's speed through the Milky Way. The planetary system is thought to move at least 1.2 ...

The team behind this research reached this conclusion by studying 20 extrasolar planets or "exoplanets" as they crossed, or "transited," the faces of their parent stars using the Hubble Space ...

Since the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries. Many of these exoplanets are ...

Gaia-4b, an exoplanet about 244 light-years away, is twelve times more massive than Jupiter. Credit: ESA / Gaia / DPAC / M. Marcussen illustration Scientists have dubbed the exoplanet, a world ...

(Credit: ESO/L. Calçada) Prepare to be blown away: Astronomers have recorded the most powerful planetary wind thus far — a force that pummels a giant exoplanet with gales faster than the speed of ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter" — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this intriguing exoplanet, which is a world beyond our solar system.

What’s even more astounding is those speeds are 6 times faster than that exoplanet is actually rotating. The whole thing is tidally locked-- similar to our Moon, where one side is always facing us.

This Collection highlights the results from the Early Science Release programme of the JWST telescope focused on transiting hot giant exoplanets. With its extended wavelength range and its ...

Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a mind-bending 5.5 miles per second (9 kilometers per second). The speed of sound on Earth is roughly 0.21 miles per second (0. ...

Jan. 21, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet ...