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

This arises after researchers compared gases in a still-forming planet’s atmosphere ... that two different scenarios might be at play. One explanation is the planet might have formed before ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to a new paper published in the journal Nature, astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of the layered atmosphere ... planets are out there, where they orbit, and how common the ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system ... signatures of multiple chemical elements, probing different layers of the atmosphere as a result.

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 ...

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, ...

The researchers peered through the atmosphere of WASP-121b, a planet also called Tylos, by combining all four telescope units of the European Southern Observatory's Chile-based Very Large Telescope, ...

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 ...