Jun 11, 2015 by News Staff

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have detected a stratosphere – an atmospheric region that is very important to life –...

May 13, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using data collected by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope have found evidence of daily weather cycles on fourteen extrasolar gas giants. An artist’s...

Apr 22, 2015 by News Staff

For the first time, astronomers have directly detected visible light reflected off an extrasolar planet. This artist’s view shows the hot Jupiter exoplanet...

Mar 5, 2015 by News Staff

According to a team of astronomers headed by Dr Lewis Roberts from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, an extrasolar gas giant called 30 Arietis...

Oct 11, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced a global weather map of a hot-Jupiter exoplanet called WASP-43b,...

Jul 25, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers headed by Dr Nikku Madhusudhan of the Cambridge University’s Institute of Astronomy has found that the abundance of water vapor...

Feb 26, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers led by Alexandra Lockwood from California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have detected the water vapor in the atmosphere of an extrasolar...

Oct 1, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using data from two space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a hot gas giant called Kepler-7b. This artist’s rendering shows...

Jul 30, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed six transits of an exoplanet called HD 189733b, the closest...