Using data from the SuperWASP survey, an international team of astronomers has identified two new "hot Saturns" and one "Super-Neptune".
New observations of WASP-12b conducted with the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the planet's sun-facing side "eats light".
A new study conducted by an international team of astronomers has revealed two new "Warm Jupiter" exoplanets in two distant…
The outer planets of the Solar System - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are gas giants, a designation which…
The Kepler space observatory has made some interesting finds since it began its mission back in March of 2009. Even…
As more and more exoplanets are identified and confirmed by various observational methods, the still-elusive "holy grail" is the discovery…
It was just last week that we reported on the oh-so-close approach to 1,000 confirmed exoplanets discovered thus far, and…
Overheated and overinflated, hot Jupiters are some of the strangest extrasolar planets to be discovered by the Kepler mission... and…
[/caption] Earlier this month astronomers released news of the darkest exoplanet ever seen: discovered in 2006, the gas giant TrES-2b…
[/caption] It was once thought that our planet was part of a "typical" solar system. Inner rocky worlds, outlying gas…