Hubble Space Telescope imagery created an HD look at the gas giant planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

One curious type of exoplanet is the Hot Jupiter, a planet similar in size to our own Jupiter–but, unlike our neighborhood gas giant, ... This new planet, named HD 167768 b, ...

Pinte says previous observations of HD 97048 revealed it has two large rings with a gigantic gap in the middle, and that was where the team found their baby Jupiter. "We found the planet in the ...

A recent breakthrough in astronomy has illuminated the mysterious dynamics of a binary star system, HD 135344 AB, where a ...

The newly detected exoplanet, designated HD 167768 b, is estimated to have a mass of at least 0.85 Jupiter masses. It orbits its host every 20.65 days, at a distance of approximately 0.15 AU.

The planet known as HD 189733b, discovered in 2005, ... "This planet is very much like Jupiter, but just hotter." Jupiter, too, has trace amounts of hydrogen sulfide in its atmosphere.

Astronomers deduced the color of the Jupiter-like world, HD 189733b, with the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which measured light from the planet before, during, and after it passed behind ...

This image shows an artist’s impression of the ten hot Jupiter exoplanets studied by David Sing and his colleagues. From top left to to lower left these planets are WASP-12b, WASP-6b, WASP-31b, ...

A recipe for a weird super-Jupiter . There are two possible ways a gas giant like HD 114082 b could form, both of which occur in the protoplanetary disk, a disk of gas and dust that collapses to ...

A Stinky Odyssey: HD 189733 b is a well-known exoplanet discovered in October 2005. The planet has a mass 11.2 percent greater than that of Jupiter and a radius 11.4 percent larger. According to ...

This space wallpaper is an illustration showing a "hot Jupiter" planet known as HD 189733b orbiting its star, HD 189733. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope measured the actual visible light color ...

When you look to the western sky tonight, you'll see two bright points of light among the stars. They are hard to miss and a great opportunity to take the family out for some brief observing, even ...