When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...

Exoplanet TOI 1227 b is being bombarded by x-rays from its host red dwarf star, causing it to “shrink from the size of ...

The James Webb Telescope is reshaping our understanding of distant worlds, revealing exoplanet atmospheres, potential ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved an unprecedented feat by mapping for the first time the atmosphere of a ...

Where will we first find life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

The Webb Telescope has issued a weather for a rogue planet named SIMP 0136. The forecast is auroras, sand clouds, and ...

An exoplanet completely or densely covered by clouds could aid astronomers in their search for signs of life beyond Earth. Cloudy skies may spoil a picnic or block a view of the stars through a ...

The powerful coronal mass ejection would have likely destroyed the atmospheres of any potentially habitable planets nearby ...

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to destroy a planet’s atmosphere.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected phosphine gas in the ancient brown dwarf Wolf 1130C, a discovery that contradicts years of predictions about how phosphorus behaves in ...