Uranus and Neptune may resemble twins today, but their chemistry is telling us that they are more like cousins with very ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, been able to reconstruct in detail the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of ...

Weather maps of distant planets are a step closer after the James Webb Space Telescope distinguished hotter and cooler ...

Leveraging observations by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and a new mapping method called “transmission strings,” a ...

Credit: The EAGLE project/Durham University Galaxy simulations suggest the Milky Way offers some of the universe’s best ...

Researchers are investigating possible gemstone-forming materials in the atmosphere of an unusually hot and puffy exoplanet.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected gemstones in the atmosphere of a scorching-hot exoplanet, ...

Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope data to create a 3D model of WASP-17b’s uneven atmosphere, revealing ring-like ...

Planets appear as perfectly round disks when they cross in front of their stars, and astronomers have long measured them that way. But a new analysis of the giant exoplanet WASP-17b shows that its ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have unravelled some of the secrets of a bizarre, blisteringly ...

Transmission strings reveal temperature differences around WASP-17b’s atmosphere, adding detail beyond an average planetary ...

University of Bristol] Until now the alien white-hot worlds of exoplanets have been depicted as circular, but new research ...