These celestial bodies share similarities and stark contrasts with planets like Jupiter and Saturn ... to study the atmospheres of distant, extrasolar planets. Yet, many enigmas about the ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

A solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its magnetosphere created a hot region spanning half Jupiter's circumference. A massive wave of solar wind that squished Jupiter's ...

An exoplanet—also called an extrasolar planet—is a planet outside a solar system ... The newly discovered exoplanet, called HIP 99770 b, is about 14 to 16 times the mass of Jupiter and orbits a star ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

Extrasolar planets (exoplanets ... However, it is notable that, of solar system planets, only Jupiter has the magnetic field strength to allow detection from the ground, with the radio emission from ...

Extrasolar planets contextualise the Solar System among a large number of planetary systems with very different properties. Many extrasolar planets show characteristics which are not realised in the ...

We search for extrasolar planets and determine their properties. We develop models that describe the atmospheres of the planets. We want to find out what makes a planet favourable to life. Through ...