Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

This discovery by Webb provides strong evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, much like ...

In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between, Arizona State University, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is unlocking the ...

The dividing line between gas giant planets and failed stars is blurry at best. The isolated planetary-mass object SIMP ...

In a recent, cross-institutional study, researchers report that healthy human airways are at higher risk for dehydration and ...

After many previous claims and false alarms, astronomers can finally confirm the existence of at least four planets less ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...