Discovered in 2011 by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, TrEs-2b absorbs 99% of the light it is struck with and reflects only 1%, ...

Pairing Saab’s AEW sensors with the long-range, high-endurance MQ-9B allows persistent surveillance at low cost even from aircraft carriers. General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. In the hunt for planets outside of our own solar system, scientists have spotted a number ...

A newly discovered binary system, 1400 light-years away, comprises a brown dwarf orbiting a white dwarf (WD 0032-317). The brown dwarf's extreme temperature (approximately 7,700°C) is primarily due to ...

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 ...

A team of astronomers has detected a brown dwarf with a scorching daytime temperature of 8,000 Kelvin (13,940 degrees Fahrenheit). This means this extremely hot object is hotter than our very own Sun, ...

KELT-9b is three times the mass of Jupiter and has an almost unbelievable surface temperature of 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit (4,300 degrees Celsius), making it the hottest planet discovered so far. It is ...

A group of astronomers from the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad, India has discovered a scorching new exoplanet where a year lasts just a few days, according to the Indian Space ...

The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has truly taken off over the last few decades, so it’s no surprise that exoplanet news has become a staple of New Atlas’ science coverage. With the recent ...

We all know that it takes the Earth 365 days to orbit the Sun, marking an entire year. In our solar system, a year on other planets varies greatly depending on how close they are to our star. Mercury, ...