The search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift. With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope ...
Astronomers have detected the signal of a rainbow-like phenomenon known as the “glory effect” on a planet outside our solar ...
New observations from the space telescope point to the existence of a “glory” in the atmosphere of WASP-76b, a luminous ...
From the brightness variations of its host star, an exoplanet’s size and other properties can be determined. In order to ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is poised to investigate seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the TRAPPIST-1 star, 40 light ...
For the first time, astronomers observed the rainbow-like effect on the exoplanet WASP-76b — a hot gas giant located 637 ...
"There's a reason no glory has been seen before outside our solar system — it requires very peculiar conditions." There are many words that could be used to describe WASP-76b — hellish ...
WASP-76b is a strange world. Located several hundred light-years away, the Jupiter-like planet is tidally locked to its star, ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2020, scientists detected a gas called phosphine in the atmosphere of an Earth-sized rocky planet. Knowing of no way that ...
Just from looking at our own solar system, we can see that planets come in a wide variety of colors — from the dusty red of Mars to the bright blues of Uranus and Neptune. Planets like Jupiter ...
New observations from the CHEOPS space telescope point to the existence of a "glory" in the atmosphere of WASP-76b, a luminous phenomenon similar to a rainbow. The CHEOPS space telescope, with its ...
Atmospheric scientist and cloud expert Alexandria Johnson creates clouds in her lab to study atmospheric phenomena on Earth and in faraway skies. (Purdue University photo/Kelsey Lefever) WEST ...