The Hubble Space Telescope has made multiple observations of exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. The extreme ...

So, why are so many exoplanets known as "hot Jupiters" orbiting very close to their stars? That's the question astronomers ask as they study more of these extreme worlds. It turns out that hot ...

Hot Jupiters (red dots) are large planets similar to our Jupiter, but orbiting close to their stars. Four hot Jupiters have magnetic field strengths much greater than that of Earth, Saturn ...

By putting some fun into it, we're not fooling anyone," he said. ESO/L.Calçada Artwork: Wasp-76b is a "hot Jupiter". It's a gas giant like our Jupiter but orbits very close to its star ...

ascending page-by-page from Neptune-like ice worlds to blazing hot gas giants called "hot Jupiters." This progression led up to "failed star" brown dwarfs, or objects that form like stars ...

As a result, the majority of discoveries made with this method have been so-called hot Jupiters, because of their large masses and close proximities to their parent stars. Nearly two dozen planets ...

WASP-96 b is a hot, puffy gas giant orbiting a star about 1,150 light-years away. It's a little larger than Jupiter, but has less than half the mass of Jupiter. That makes it much puffier and less ...

The dividing line between stars and planets is that stars have enough mass to fuse hydrogen into helium to produce their own ...