A planet so distant that its starlight began traveling toward Earth around the Middle Ages has given one University of ...

JWST has revealed a surprising daily cloud cycle on a distant hot Jupiter, giving scientists a clearer look at its atmosphere.

Approximately 190 light-years from Earth, two planets circle the star TOI-1130 in a setup astronomers rarely see. One is a ...

A team of astronomers led by Elisabeth Matthews at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a discovery that highlights the limits of most current models of exoplanet atmospheres: ...

JWST studied a massive Jupiter-like exoplanet's atmosphere, finding surprising water-ice clouds that simpler models missed - a key test run for future Earth-like world searches. The way the ...