Ruby clouds and water behaving strangely – what we found when studying an exoplanet’s dark side: An artist's impression of the dark side of ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b. Credit: Patricia Klein / MPIA, CC BY-SA Since astronomers discovered the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun, we have found many worlds that are very …
AI can reliably spot molecules on exoplanets – and might one day even discover new laws of physics: Artist's impression of exoplanet KELT-11 b. Impression by Léa Changeat., Author provided Do you know what the Earth’s atmosphere is made of? You’d probably remember it’s oxygen, and maybe nitrogen. And with a little help from Google …
From iron rain on exoplanets to lightning on Jupiter: four examples of alien weather: ESO/Frederik Peeters When Oscar Wilde said “conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative” he was unaware of some of the more extreme weather on planets and moons other than Earth. Since the discovery of the first exoplanet …
NASA launches satellite ‘TESS’ in hunt for exoplanets: TESS will soon be our eye in the sky. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Previous generations have looked up at the stars in the night sky and wondered whether they are also orbited by planets. Our generation is the first to find out the answer. We now …