A team led by astronomer Julia Seidel used wind speed data from seven ultra-hot Jupiters to produce the first direct ...
Magnetic fields protect a planet's atmosphere from stellar winds and are crucial for life.
The data had been sitting on NASA’s servers for years. Thousands of stars, observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey ...
Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of magnetic worlds beyond the solar system, representing a major step forward ...
A team of astronomers has found the strongest evidence yet that some planets outside our solar system may be magnetic. Using ...
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - Based on the behavior of winds on seven large and hot gas exoplanets, ...
This illustration shows magnetic activity in an exoplanet that is a gas giant like Jupiter but orbits very close to its host ...
Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...
In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely hospitable to life. And as technology advances, astronomers only expect to ...
Five exoplanets and eight planet candidates have been found around nearby stars, including a “cold Neptune” and two super-Earths that are potentially habitable, according to a new study. The two super ...