Images from the Akatsuki spacecraft unveil what keeps Venus’s atmosphere rotating much faster than the planet itself. An international research team led by Takeshi Horinouchi of Hokkaido University ...

Instead of a hydrogen-rich super-Earth, or a water world, the new data revealed concentrations of carbon-dioxide (CO 2) comparable to the levels found in the dense CO 2 atmosphere of Venus in our ...

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

Artist’s impression of GJ 1214 b passing in front of its host star. The “transit method” allows astronomers to study an exoplanet by seeing which wavelengths of light dim when the star’s light passes ...

Can exoplanets have metal-rich atmospheres? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of international researchers investigated a new type ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...