The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

Exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun, are likely more numerous than the stars themselves. In the last 30 years over 4,000 exoplanets have been discovered. These worlds come in all ...

When the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995, Sara Seager and Dave Charbonneau were graduate students at Harvard. Both were studying topics totally unrelated to planets orbiting distant stars.

Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a mind-bending 5.5 miles per second (9 kilometers per second). The speed of sound on Earth is roughly 0.21 miles per second (0. ...

This Collection highlights the results from the Early Science Release programme of the JWST telescope focused on transiting hot giant exoplanets. With its extended wavelength range and its ...

Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has been dedicated to creating an accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Using two high-precision optical telescopes, the spacecraft carefully records the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Scientists have discovered two “super-Earth” exoplanets, one of which is in its star’s habitable zone. That means liquid ...

ridge and savanna observed in the Neptunian landscape. The team will now turn to the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and its ...

A new exoplanet, TOI-6038 A b, has been discovered orbiting a bright late F-type star about 578 light-years away. It is approximately 6.41 times the radius and 78.5 times the mass of Earth, with a ...