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

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

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

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

A growing list of dark star candidates could help explain why some early galaxies were so big, so early in the universe.

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

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object ...

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

James Webb Space Telescope has delivered stunning views of the "gravitationally distorted realms" of the El Gordo galaxy ...

Astronomers think they’ve spotted something radical: black holes hiding inside giant stars, masquerading as luminous dots. If ...