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Webb identified methane and water vapor in exoplanets’ atmosphere

Scientists can now start to perform an “apples-to-apples” comparison.

‘Hot Jupiters’ may not be orbiting alone

Result challenges longstanding beliefs about the isolation of “hot Jupiters”.

Planets can be an anti-aging formula for stars

The team examined systems containing a star orbited by a hot Jupiter.

Hubble explored extreme weather on ultra-hot Jupiters

They have the hottest planetary atmospheres ever seen.

Exotic water cycle and metal clouds discovered on Jupiter exoplanet

A “hot Jupiter’s” dark side is revealed in detail for the first time.

First cloudless, Jupiter-like planet discovered

It completes a rotation around its star in just four-and-a-half days.

First measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant ‘super-Jupiter’ planet

For the first time, astronomers have measured the spin-orbit alignment for a distant 'super-Jupiter' planet called Beta Pictoris b that located 63 light-years from...

New warm Jupiter alien world discovered

The newfound exoplanet, designated TOI-677 b, is about 20 percent bigger and more massive than Jupiter.

Hubble uncovers a heavy metal exoplanet shaped like a football

Observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal magnesium and iron gas streaming from the heavy metal exoplanet known as WASP-121b.

Cooking up alien atmospheres on earth

NASA's JPL scientists are recreating conditions that found in the atmospheres of a special class of exoplanets called 'hot Jupiters' using a high-temperature "oven"...

Kepler’s first planet candidate confirmed, 10 years later

In February 2019, Ashley Chontos, a graduate student of University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy, confirmed the existence of a massive hot Jupiter Kepler-1658b...

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