There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

Stars are far from calm entities. They can erupt in spectacular bursts of energy that disrupt the space around them, and these stellar flares can dramatically alter the atmospheres of planets, even ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...

Solar flares can reshape exoplanet atmospheres within days, affecting temperature, winds, and potential habitability.

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers announced a groundbreaking discovery made by the James Webb ...

Its color is actually caused by the effects of a 2,000 degree Fahrenheit (1,093 Celsius) atmosphere where rock-forming ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a previously unknown exoplanet, a young gas giant the size of Saturn, 110 light ...

After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered its first new planet.

The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...