"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 ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

Star formation is a fundamental physical process in our universe. Stars light up the cosmos, and give rise to planets, some ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

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

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

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

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

What can auroras on a rogue planet teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address, as an international ...

St. Andrews University physicists who looked at the planet said that the research conjures "two possible explanations." ...