Gas Giant Exoplanets

Ames Research Center
Astrophysics
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
The Universe
Why is the warm gas-giant exoplanet WASP-107 b so puffy? Two independent teams of researchers have an answer.
Posted May 20, 2024
Astrophysics
Exoplanet Atmosphere
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Missions
Science & Research
Studying Exoplanets
An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b.
Posted April 30, 2024
Earth-like Exoplanets
Eclipses
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Universe
Our star, the Sun, on occasion joins forces with the Moon to offer us Earthlings a spectacular solar eclipse – like the one that will be visible to parts of the United States, Mexico, and Canada on April 8. But out there, among the other stars, how often can we see similar eclipses? The answer […]
Posted April 2, 2024
Exoplanet Discoveries
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
Two recently discovered exoplanets, gas giants possibly similar to Saturn, could be candidates for further atmospheric investigation.
Posted March 7, 2024
Exoplanet Discoveries
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
Missions
The Universe
WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)
Scientists find that a glowing cloud that obscured a star was caused by a cataclysmic collision of two giant exoplanets.
Posted February 17, 2024
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Earth-like Exoplanets
Exoplanet Detection Methods
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanet Transits
Exoplanets
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Gas Giant Exoplanets
General
Gravitational Microlensing
Kepler / K2
Missions
Neptune-Like Exoplanets
Neutron Stars
Science & Research
Stars
Studying Exoplanets
Super-Earth Exoplanets
Terrestrial Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Kuiper Belt
The Milky Way
The Solar System
The Universe
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The mission will monitor hundreds of millions of stars in search of tell-tale flickers that betray the presence of planets, distant stars, small icy objects that haunt the outskirts of our solar system, isolated […]
Posted October 24, 2023
Exoplanet Discoveries
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
Red Giants
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
A large, gaseous exoplanet orbits a red giant star that should have destroyed it. It’s 530 light-years from Earth.
Posted September 30, 2023
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