The class of planets known as “hot Jupiters” puzzled astronomers on first discovery, but rapidly led to an explanation that they had formed far out and migrated inwards.

It’s part of the Hot Jupiter class which includes the giant planets made of gas, making them physically similar to Jupiter. The team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the US ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...

Astronomers dubbed this strange new class of planets “hot Jupiters.” The existence of hot Jupiters threw a wrench into the leading planet-formation models. Theories had been based on the ...

Astronomers have detected over 5,800 confirmed exoplanets. One extreme class is ultra-hot Jupiters, of particular interest because they can provide a unique window into planetary atmospheric dynamics.

WASP-121b is an “ultra-hot Jupiter”, a class of large gas planets that orbit close to their host star, making them extremely hot. Its atmosphere is mainly composed of hydrogen and helium ...

Many of the extraordinary features of WASP-121 b arise from the fact that it is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant planet with around 1.2 times the mass of its solar system namesake. WASP-121 b ...

After identifying an unusual trend in the movement of the hot Jupiter planet TOI-2818b, the team, from the UNSW School of Physics, ran a series of model simulations that pointed to the presence of ...

WASP-121b is an "ultra-hot Jupiter," a class of large gas planets that orbit close to their host star, making them extremely hot. Its atmosphere is mainly composed of hydrogen and helium, like that of ...