Astronomers have detected the signal of a rainbow-like phenomenon known as the “glory effect” on a planet outside our solar ...
Some stars erupt with 'superflares' 10,000 times as powerful as solar flares from the sun. Scientists may now know why.
New observations from the space telescope point to the existence of a “glory” in the atmosphere of WASP-76b, a luminous ...
Eagle-eyed, armchair astronomers have almost certainly made a number of thrilling discoveries, including two possible Jupiter ...
ALIEN species may be meteor-hopping across space and quietly colonising the galaxy, a fringe theory suggests. It’s a concept ...
The NASA James Webb Space Telescope has provided astronomers with an unprecedented glimpse of a distant exoplanet, shedding ...
For the first time, astronomers observed the rainbow-like effect on the exoplanet WASP-76b — a hot gas giant located 637 ...
The tally of planets found in orbit around other stars now surpasses 5,600, but even with so many possibilities, none compare ...
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a tidally-locked super-Earth a few light-years away from our planet. The ...
From the brightness variations of its host star, an exoplanet’s size and other properties can be determined. In order to ...
A star's magnetic field must be considered in order to correctly determine the characteristics of exoplanets from observations by space telescopes such as Kepler, James Webb, or PLATO. Researchers ...
Combined data from Cheops and TESS, or the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, hinted that the anomaly might be due to something intriguing occurring in the atmosphere above the dayside.