The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...

while giant planets have orbits about four times more elliptical than smaller planets. The finding points toward two different pathways by which large and small planets form. "What we found is ...

The researchers peered through the atmosphere of WASP-121b, a planet ... of layers with different chemical compositions and intense winds. Sign up here. Until now, researchers have been able ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a rogue planet or a "failed star." Either way, the world wanders the cosmos ...

Hence it is reassuring when independent teams, using different ... and any atmosphere is likely to have been stripped away. The teams looked for longer-period planets, further out in the star's ...

Because each layer in the planet's atmosphere hosts unique winds carrying different elements ... Planets like Earth and Jupiter have jet streams, too, but they don't contain this onion-like ...

Astronomers have discovered that sulfur may be a key to helping us narrow down our search for life on other planets. It's not that sulfur is a great indication that a planet is inhabited. Instead, ...

For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside our solar system. Attached to a particularly mysterious alien world, the newly charted ...

An artist’s impression of the three different layers of the atmosphere ... researchers have been able to determine the atmospheric chemical composition for some planets outside our solar system ...