"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres," according to the Hubble team. Credit: ...

Scientists discovered WASP-121b, an exoplanet where metals rain from the sky. Located 858 light-years away, this 'ultra-hot ...

Astronomers may have inadvertently complicated the mystery of how strange "roasting marshmallow" planets form. Using the Gemini South telescope, researchers found that the "hot and puffy" ultra ...

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...