Tag: Exoplanets

The Kepler-11 system, as imagined from above, is a "peas-in-a-pod" planetary system. Credit: NASA Astronomers have discovered more than 300 ...

The Discovery A possible “super-Earth” orbits a relatively close, Sun-like star, and could be a habitable world – but one ...

The three layers of the atmosphere of the gas giant TylosESO/M. Kornmesser The atmosphere of a distant world has been ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If ...

Illustration of the volcanic exoplanet L 98-59 bNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center An alien world with a seemingly sulphur-filled atmosphere ...

The exoplanet K2-18 b may have an ocean of water beneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere, as shown in this artist’s concept. ...

Illustration of an exoplanet in the early universeDarryl Fonseka/Alamy Conditions in the early universe might have enabled rocky planets with ...

Back to Article List Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions ...

Back to Article List By combining JWST and Hubble data, an unprecedented high-resolution photo of Vega shows an extremely smooth ...

Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Alamy There is something strange about Earth. A few billion years ago, a process started here that ...