A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has recently made its closest approach to the Sun and is now heading back out, providing astronomers with several months for observation.

Jupiter will reach its highest point in the sky around dawn, when, from mid-northern latitudes, it will appear about 20 ...

Astronomers currently place the object approximately 337.3 million kilometers from Earth, translating to a distance of about ...

Artificial intelligence appears weightless — just code in the cloud, thinking at the speed of light. Yet behind that digital mist lies a heavy, physical world built from metal, electricity and heat.

A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery WASP-18b, a massive “ultra-hot Jupiter,” revealed striking temperature ...

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About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...