Using advanced new simulations, a team of astronomers in the U.S. has developed a promising new theory for how giant, gaseous ...

Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the universe, blazing gas giants like Jupiter or Saturn that exist so close to their stars that they complete orbits in a matter of days. Now, new ...

New research led by a scientist at IPAC—a science and data center for astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech—studying the hot Jupiter CoRoT-2 b has settled on one of the three leading ...

Planets beyond our solar system can have magnetic fields similar to those closer to home, astronomers said Tuesday after observing extreme winds on scorching worlds known as "hot Jupiters." The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over the dark side ...

A remote hot Jupiter exoplanet has foregone the typical solitary life that worlds of its kind normally lead, in favor of companionship with another planet — and now, astronomers think they know why.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the uneven shape of WASP-17b’s atmosphere, showing how extreme heat and powerful winds reshape this distant hot Jupiter.

For the first time, astronomers have created a three-dimensional (3D) temperature map of a distant exoplanet. The planet, WASP-18b, is a scorching ultra-hot Jupiter about 400 light-years away. The ...

What can clouds teach astronomers about an exoplanet’s atmospheric characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the cloud ...

When scientists study exoplanets, planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, they often lack three-dimensional information.