Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing ...

For the first time, scientists have produced a 3D temperature map of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-18b, a gas giant that is so ...

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...

A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.

A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery WASP-18b, a massive “ultra-hot Jupiter,” revealed striking temperature ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans and primitive atmospheres during their early years. New experimental work ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

Sydney scientists fixed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope without ever leaving Earth. Using AI-powered software called AMIGO, ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to make 1st 3D map of exoplanet — and it's so hot, it rips apart water ...

Astronomers have created the first three-dimensional (3D) map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with distinct temperature zones – one so scorching that it breaks down water ...