Mercury is the speed champion in our Solar System. It orbits the Sun every 88 days, and its average speed…
In a recent study, an international team of astronomers directly measured the atmospheric composition of a hot Jupiter hundreds of…
A new study led by Princeton researchers has confirmed that in the long run, hot Jupiters are destined to be…
The Next Generation Transit Survey recently discovered a hot-Jupiter with the shortest orbital period observed to date, just 18 hours!
The discovery of a Jupiter-sized planet around a red dwarf star has caused astronomers to rethink some of their theories…
Using data from the SuperWASP survey, an international team of astronomers has identified two new "hot Saturns" and one "Super-Neptune".
New observations of WASP-12b conducted with the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the planet's sun-facing side "eats light".
A new study conducted by an international team of astronomers has revealed two new "Warm Jupiter" exoplanets in two distant…
The outer planets of the Solar System - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are gas giants, a designation which…
The Kepler space observatory has made some interesting finds since it began its mission back in March of 2009. Even…