Learn what the first maps of the sun's atmospheric boundary reveal about solar wind and its escape into space.

James Webb finds a hot planet that is tidally locked with its parent star, is coated with a thick atmosphere of volatile ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that launched from Florida and has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade.

NASA is probing a sudden loss of contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter after rare 3I/ATLAS data, raising questions about timing ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Here's what we know.

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

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

The Geminids meteor shower has proven to reliably produce around 120 meteors per hour in a dark sky, and many of them are bright.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal TOI-561 b has a cooler-than-expected dayside, indicating a thick atmosphere above a global magma ocean, based on infrared emission measurements.

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a ...

Known as the “hypertropics,” this climate is defined by hot drought conditions—and hasn’t been seen on Earth for tens of ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests that exoplanet TOI-561 b is surrounded by a thick atmosphere above a global magma ocean.