The search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift. With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope ...
Similar to Earth but incapable of sustaining life. Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing ...
Astronomers have spotted what they believe to be a rainbow-like phenomenon occurring on a planet outside our solar system for the first time, and it could reveal new insights about alien worlds.
The NASA James Webb Space Telescope has provided astronomers with an unprecedented glimpse of a distant exoplanet, shedding ...
New observations from the space telescope point to the existence of a “glory” in the atmosphere of WASP-76b, a luminous ...
Astronomers have detected the signal of a rainbow-like phenomenon known as the “glory effect” on a planet outside our solar ...
WASP-76b is a strange world. Located several hundred light-years away, the Jupiter-like planet is tidally locked to its star, ...
Beyond Earth, the glory effect had only been seen on Venus until Cheops and other missions picked up an incredibly faint signal suggesting it occurs in the atmosphere of the hellishly hot WASP-76b.