Piette said an atmosphere would allow gases like water vapor to absorb some wavelengths of light, keeping the telescope's ...

Fresh simulations show there is a chance Uranus and Neptune might actually be rock-rich worlds wrapped in thinner icy layers.

A mysterious interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS is about to make its closest approach to Earth in December 2025. Here's ...

Leaked images of 3I/ATLAS suggest the US may have been tracking the interstellar object for years using the secret Cassandra planetary defense system, long before the public knew.

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

Scientists may have discovered an atmosphere on a distant planet. Astronomers at NASA used the James Webb Space Telescope to ...

Human bodies are exquisitely tuned to one world, and it is not a forgiving one. Strip away our technology and even Earth ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

The most convincing evidence to date of a dense atmosphere around a rocky planet outside the solar system has been found in ...

Fresh JWST data and new models challenge methane hints on TRAPPIST-1e, showing the gas would be rare, unstable, and difficult ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...