J. Banasiak In this paper, we deal with spectral properties of a weighted Laplacian in the half-space when a Dirichlet or a Neumann boundary condition is imposed. After proving that the spectrum is discrete under suitable assumptions, we give explicit formulae of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions in a specific case. In particular, the obtained eigenfunctions are rational or pseudo-rational and have remarkable orthogonality properties. These results suggest the use of the discovered functions for approximating solutions of elliptic problems in the half-space. Copyright (c) 2015John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.