Gaia-4b is the most massive planet known to orbit a low-mass star. Also, see an animation for Gaia-5b, a brown dwarf orbiting ...

Journey into deep space with the JWST as it identifies three brown dwarfs, with the smallest weighing only three to four ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that a distant alien planet's atmosphere is surprisingly lopsided. Located 1,300 light-years away, the scorching gas giant WASP-17b ...

How do young stars reshape the clouds from which they are born? A new high-resolution 3D model developed by an international ...

A team of researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has developed a new instrument designed to eliminate blind spots between lines of lidar data on Earth's surface. Built with support ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped the true shape of a distant exoplanet orbiting a star 1,000 light-years away.

James Webb reveals how powerful winds and extreme temperature differences create an unusual atmospheric bulge on the giant ...

Weather maps of distant planets are a step closer after the James Webb Space Telescope distinguished hotter and cooler ...

Researchers are investigating possible gemstone-forming materials in the atmosphere of an unusually hot and puffy exoplanet.

The Roman Space Telescope realizes an idea conceived at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab. A Berkeley astronomer now leads a large ...

A joint study by researchers at Cornell University presents the first direct spatial measurement of an exoplanet's ...

Astronomers discovered that WASP-17b has an uneven atmosphere, with extreme temperature differences between its morning and ...