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Researchers at McGill University and collaborating institutions have mapped the atmospheric features of a planetary-mass ...

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Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing ...

For the first time, scientists have produced a 3D temperature map of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-18b, a gas giant that is so ...

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A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search for potential signs of life. The discovery of a potential “super-Earth” loca ...

The first world beyond our Solar System to be mapped in three dimensions a gas giant almost ten times more massive than ...

Ageing stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL ...