The gas giant exoplanet WASP-43 b has a powerful 5,000 mph blowing around its equator, due to its close orbit with its star.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers, including scientists from MPIA, constructed a global ...

Astronomers have detected the signal of a rainbow-like phenomenon known as the “glory effect” on a planet outside our solar ...

A team of astronomers and citizen scientists has discovered a planet in the habitable zone of an unusual star system, ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers have mapped the weather on WASP-43 b - a Jupiter-sized gas giant ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has successfully created a global temperature map of the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b, ...

An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b. Precise brightness measurements over a broad ...

A discovery recently made by a few astronomers could soon prove to be the biggest one ever. We might be a few months from ...

The search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift. With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope ...

Around 280 light years away from Earth, the exoplanet WASP-43b orbits its star. Despite the enormous distance, astronomers ...

Astronomers have used 19 years' worth of Hubble data to detect over 1,000 previously unknown asteroids in our solar system.

Tomorrow is the 34th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble. To celebrate, Hubble scientists have shared an image of the ...