Hot jupiter
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...