The James Webb Space Telescope has detected changing water clouds on a world called WISE 0855 just 7.5 light-years from the ...

Giant impacts are believed to play a major role in the assembly, long-term orbital stability, and resonant structure of ...

Giant collisions may help some young planets keep their original atmospheres, rather than simply blasting the gas away. New ...

Among Kepler and TESS's many surprising exoplanet discoveries are the ultra-short-period (USP) planets. These planets move very quickly and complete an orbit in less than 24 hours. Ancient astronomers ...

NASA Juno’s gravity science data after a decade at Jupiter shows the planet’s interior composition may contradict the Galileo ...

In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes. Astronomers have now found a world that ...

Somewhere in the vast expanse of the observable universe, a planet may be orbiting a star 30 light-years away from Earth, ...

Launches from the 2020s to the 2040s, the Search for Life on Exoplanets, and the Study of Black Holes and the Early Universe ...

JWST detected signs of an atmosphere and reflective silicate clouds on the lava exoplanet TOI-561 b, which completes an orbit ...

On planet Earth, our 'secondary atmosphere' has been with us for billions of years and its chemical balance reflects the ...

Earth would be terrifying if we celebrated Halloween every 11 hours, a possibility on a super-Earth investigated by the JWST, ...

Colin McInnes, University of Glasgow The recent confirmation of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet called LHS 1140b has ...