A team led by an astronomer from the University of Kansas has crunched data from NASA’s TESS and Spitzer space telescopes to portray for the first time the atmosphere of a highly unusual kind of ...

New NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the distant planet Neptune show a dynamic atmosphere and capture the fleeting orbits of its satellites. The images have been assembled into a time-lapse movie ...

Unlike the James Webb Space Telescope's views of other sub-Neptune exoplanets' atmospheres, its look at TOI-421 b was clear. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Dani Player illustration A sweltering planet ...

At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The cyan ...

There aren't a lot of Hot Neptunes in the galaxy, and it's not entirely clear why. A Hot Neptune is, as the name implies, a Neptune-sized planet orbiting within 1 AU of its host star. While we've ...

Of all the potential super-Earths—terrestrial exoplanets more massive than Earth—out there, an exoplanet orbiting a star only 40 light-years away from us in the constellation Cetus might be the most ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

But Webb's observations didn't just provide new pretty pictures of the ice giant planet's greenish-blue splotches. It revealed how odd Neptune's auroras are compared to other planets', glowing over ...

At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to show auroras, represented ...