All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

and new computational experiments show that such planets would have an atmosphere composed of a homogenous mixture of hydrogen and water. As the planets age, their temperature decreases ...

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...

The stellar light that passes through the layers of the planetary atmosphere holds the key to understanding its dynamic patterns. Thanks to the unprecedented number of photons collected from all ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...