Hot jupiter

Not all Hot Jupiters orbit alone
This discovery overturns our perception of the architecture of planetary systems.

Iron winds are blowing on the day side of an ultra-hot exoplanet
New insight into the complex climatic dynamics of this distant world.

A novel mechanism could unravel the mystery of decaying exoplanet orbits
Why some exoplanets are spiraling towards their stars?

Webb identified methane and water vapor in exoplanets’ atmosphere
Scientists can now start to perform an “apples-to-apples” comparison.
Astronomers observed the longest tails of gas yet escaping a planet
The planet losing its atmosphere.
‘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...
Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets form
Specialists have distinguished a young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets orbiting around it. It is the first event when that such a...
Scientists Discovered New Twin Planets that could Solve Puffy Planet Mystery
How did the largest planets get to be so large? Scientists at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy have recently discovered twin planets that...