Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined worlds like these.

and global wonder of the northern and southern lights. The program runs from 3:30-4:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 28. Want more Bay City- and Saginaw-area news? Bookmark the local Bay City and Saginaw ...

Like a family in which short parents have tall children, a tiny red dwarf star is defying our understanding of how planets form by existing alongside a giant exoplanet. Giant planets are not rare ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, they said, had detected signs of a liquid water ocean — and possibly life — on the exoplanet K2-18b, a temperate sub-Neptune world located about 124 light ...

Given how scarce such worlds around red dwarfs are, finding this new planet in data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was not easy. (The "TOI"' in the system's name refers ...

Noise, caused by imperfections in the telescope and the rate at which different particles of light reach the telescope, is just one challenge astronomers face when they study distant exoplanets.

And last fall, a powerful solar storm dazzled skygazers far from the Arctic Circle when dancing lights appeared in unexpected places, including New England and New York City. Auroras, displays ...

More information: Thomas M. Evans-Soma et al, SiO and a super-stellar C/O ratio in the atmosphere of the giant exoplanet WASP-121 b, Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02513-x ...

Space Weather Prediction Center For your best shot at catching the lights, head outside the city, get away from light pollution, and face north, Dahl explained. Even if you can’t see the lights ...