By probing the atmosphere of a mini-Neptune exoplanet, the James Webb Space Telescope has found that it formed much farther ...

A giant planet circling a nearby star has given astronomers a rare look at what a colder, more Jupiter-like world can be like, and the picture is already messier than many models expected. The planet, ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric models. By directly imaging Epsilon Indi Ab with the James Webb Space ...

Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than the sun and thus exist outside the solar system. The word "exoplanet" ...

At 11.9 light-years from us, i.e., our stellar neighborhood, a giant gaseous planet named Epsilon Indi Ab has surprised ...

The atmospheres of exoplanets have been a focal point of the field lately, with the James Webb Space Telescope taking a look at as many as it can manage. But time on the world's most powerful space ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s ...

14 Herculis c one of at least two gas giants – both significantly bigger than Jupiter – that have been observed orbiting a central star in an X-like pattern. Among the nearly 6,000 exoplanets so far ...