Researchers have detailed the atmosphere of a giant, incredibly hot exoplanet called KELT-9b. Using the HARPS-North spectrograph located on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in La Palma, Spain, experts ...

Astronomers have found the hottest known exoplanet, a world where temperatures exceed those on the surface of most stars. The Jupiter-like planet, known as KELT-9b, zips around its hot host star once ...

NASA researchers and citizen scientists have been flooding our imaginations lately with thousands of newly discovered exoplanets, including a whole boatload of candidates for habitable planets, as in ...

Here in our own planetary system, humanity has spent the vast majority of its time studying planets that are rather chilly. Jupiter, Saturn, and even Mars range from cold to downright frigid. But now, ...

For the first time ever, astronomers have found iron and titanium in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system. The exoplanet, named KELT-9b, is the hottest alien world ever discovered. The ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The hottest known exoplanet is so hot that its atmosphere is "boiling off" and the escaping gas ...

Scientists have discovered an incredibly hot planet orbiting a blue star approximately 650 light-years from Earth. The story of the planet's discovery comes down to a small detail noticed from imagery ...

Researchers recently discovered a strange scorching-hot planet that is only slightly cooler than our sun. The Jupiter-like planet, KELT-9b, is tidally locked, which means it's always showing the same ...

An ultra hot planet 650 light years from Earth has an atmosphere of vaporized iron and titanium and surface temperatures approaching that of our sun, according to new observations. KELT-9b is an ...

As the number of known exoplanets grows, habitability is one of the main things we look for, and planets like Wolf 1061c or those in the TRAPPIST system are some of the best candidates. But exoplanets ...

Last year, astronomers made an intriguing discovery: a scorching planet, hotter than any other known to man, where dayside temperatures might exceed 4,000 Kelvin (6,740 degrees Fahrenheit). That would ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Here in our own planetary system, humanity has spent the vast majority of its time studying ...