When you look around the universe you live in, it looks like a 3D space, just like the surface of the Earth looks like a 2D ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

Scientists say they are rethinking how the weather works after creating a 3D map of an exoplanet 900 ... of a world outside our solar system. "This planet’s atmosphere behaves in ways that ...

Most stars host planets unlike anything in our cosmic neighborhood, reminding us that the universe is richer and more surprising than we have imagined. By untangling the forces that shape these ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our ... context for our place in the universe," Seidel said.

With family wealth to back him, he founded an observatory in the western dark-sky desert of the U.S. and hoped to unlock the mystery of the Red Planet. He soon became fascinated by another cosmic ...

The planet, if it is indeed a planet, is one of the most massive ever detected around a small star. One of the largest exoplanets to be found orbiting a relatively low-mass star has been ...

By Katrina Miller Astute skywatchers may have already seen the striking line of planets across the night sky in January. This week Mercury joins the queue. Now every other world in our solar ...

One such planet is the ultra-hot Jupiter known as WASP ... For the first time, astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of Tylos' layered atmosphere using the European Southern Observatory's ...

A visible line of planets has for weeks been the talk of astronomers and hobbyist stargazers who have sought to catch a sight of our solar system's worlds. Online chatter and a frenzy of media ...