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

Mars' atmosphere moves differently from Earth's due to gravity waves. These waves affect air circulation at high altitudes.

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, ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

A U.S.-led team of researchers used Webb to directly detect carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of all four ... and their planets have stunned researchers, and provided additional information into ...

Astronomers have uncovered the secrets of an alien atmosphere ... the planet’s distinct deep, mid, and upper atmospheric layers. “The VLT enabled us to probe three different layers of the ...

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

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 ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...