New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

Northern lights, or auroras, are not exclusive to Earth. Astronomers have already detected this phenomenon on most planets ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that forms a moon-forming disk of ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

A star is heading toward the outskirts of our solar system, and it’s getting here sooner than expected.Gliese 710, a rogue ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered auroras on the cosmic loner SIMP-0136. They also found unusual clouds in the atmosphere.

While SIMP-0136 is a brown dwarf, not a true planet, the techniques used to study it pave the way for future explorations of ...

"Understanding these weather processes will be crucial as we continue to discover and characterize exoworlds in the future." ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...