One of the big topics in exoplanet research right now is not just finding exoplanets but also looking at their atmospheres. Tools like the James Webb Space Telescope are designed to allow researchers ...

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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an immense cloud of hydrogen dispersing from a warm, Neptune-sized planet orbiting a nearby star. The enormous gaseous tail of the ...

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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly detected the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system. The unique observation shows it may be possible to find ...

"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." Astronomers discovered a new rogue planet lurking in archival data gathered by ...

Thanks to NASA's Hubble telescope, planet HD 189733 b has become the first planet outside the Solar System to have its color directly measured -- and, like Earth, it's blue! Unlike our home planet, ...

A star about 1,360 light-years away from Earth, named FU Orionis, is twice as hot as astronomers previously suspected, according to recent data from the Hubble Space Telescope. In fact, scientists ...