About 700 light-years from Earth, a gas giant nearly the size of Jupiter orbits so close to its star that one face is permanently scorched in daylight while the other never sees the sun at all. The ...
What can clouds teach astronomers about an exoplanet’s atmospheric characteristics? This is what a recent study published in ...
A planet so distant that its starlight began traveling toward Earth around the Middle Ages has given one University of Cincinnati graduate student the kind of first look astronomers wait years for.
A giant planet nearly 700 light-years away has a bizarre daily weather cycle where mineral clouds appear every morning and ...
WASP-94A b, a hot Jupiter nearly 700 light-years away, builds mineral cloud cover each morning and loses it by evening. This ...
A lack of evening clouds on this world has allowed astronomers to get a good read on the planet's true composition.
Jupiter’s storms aren’t just gigantic — they may unleash lightning far more powerful than anything on Earth. Using NASA’s Juno spacecraft, scientists discovered that some lightning bolts on the gas ...