A recent study has unveiled how chemical elements and powerful winds shape the atmosphere of a planet far beyond our solar system.

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

A tiny star is making big moves — whether its accomplice likes it or not. Astronomers have spotted a star just a fraction the ...

Astronomers have achieved a breakthrough in planetary science, revealing the complex weather of a distant gas giant with ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...

Many scientists have long thought that developing planets should resemble the swirling disk of gas and dust that births them.

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

Spotting the star and its exoplanet is a remarkable discovery ... providing a better view of what lies behind it. At the time, the findings were enough to determine the mass ratio between the ...

Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ...