The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit. Credit ...

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Three years later came news of the first known exoplanet, a Jupiter-like gas giant orbiting its star closer ... for telltale signs of life, such as oxygen and methane gases.

This artist’s concept shows what the warm Neptune exoplanet WASP-107 b could look ... by a relatively small mass of hydrogen and helium gas, which has been inflated due to tidal heating of ...

of starlight blocked by the atmosphere of the gas-giant exoplanet WASP-107 b. The spectrum includes light collected over four separate observations using a total of three different instruments ...

Even JWST can’t separate these tiny planets from their host stars – as they orbit their stars too closely. But there is a way ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...