When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA) The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system ...

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists have ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the "habitable zone," the region around a star where ...

The atmospheres of alien planets can now be probed even if they are not illuminated by stars directly behind them, astronomers say. A new method used to scan the atmosphere of a distant "hot Jupiter" ...

For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside our solar system. Attached to a particularly mysterious alien world, the newly charted atmosphere ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

The disc surrounds an exoplanet dubbed PDS 70c, one of two gas giants similar in size and mass to Jupiter that orbit the star PDS 70 nearly 400 light years from our ...

It's been a while since the most advanced and most expensive telescope made to date, the James Webb, brought forth another incredible discovery, but the wait seems to have been worth it: we now have ...

In Assistant Professor Shawn Brueshaber’s lab, advanced imaging software analyzes photographs from a space probe orbiting Jupiter and cost-effective meteorological equipment is being built out of take ...