Estimating stellar age has always been a challenge for astronomers. Now, a certain class of exoplanets is making the process…
In this age of exoplanet discovery, we've discovered thousands of exoplanets of different types. The hot Jupiter is one of…
Hot Jupiters are giant exoplanets – even more massive than Jupiter – but they orbit closer to their star than…
What an exoplanet shaped like a rugby ball tells us about its composition.
Astronomers have found a small, hot planet that might be almost solid iron.
The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (aptly nicknamed CUTE) is a new, NASA-funded mission that aims to study the atmospheres of…
Researchers at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics published a paper last week that just might explain a mysterious…
The molecule hydroxyl (HO) is common on Earth, but astronomers have not yet determined how abundant it is on other…
The search for exoplanets has revealed types of planets that are nothing like the worlds in our own Solar System.…
The recent discovery of a very young gas giant could offer clues about how "Hot Jupiters" form and whether or…