A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

An international team of astronomers has shown for the first time that it is possible to map exoplanets using a technique ...

What can a 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach astronomers about the planet’s formation, evolution, and composition?

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

"This is really like looking at ourselves in a funhouse mirror." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Skewed planetary pathways around ...

The EXOEarths team (Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto – CAUP), in collaboration with Geneva University, did a joint analysis of data from the HARPS spectrograph and the Kepler satellite.

Scientists have been trying to find a hypothetical Planet 9 that may exist outside our known solar system based on the unusual orbits of certain dwarf planets. But those orbits might not require a ...