Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres," according to the Hubble team. Credit: ...

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eventually planning to "map deep water clouds using the Hubble data to define 3D cloud structures in Jupiter’s atmosphere," ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those ...

Last week's results were a bit tighter than the week before. Congratulations to melodic Norwegian proggers Dim Gray, whose ...

Using commercially available telescopes and spectral filters, an amateur astronomer named Steve Hill collected data to map the abundance of ammonia in Jupiter's atmosphere, but Hill ultimately ...

The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped a stunning image of a cloud on Jupiter shaped like a dolphin, proving that even science has an ...