The James Webb and Very Large telescopes spotted a free-floating planet accreting material at a record rate, displaying ...

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

Scientists may finally have an answer for why the ferocious jet streams on the solar system’s giant planets blow in opposite ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto ...

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

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 ...

In “Citizen Science in Astronomy (Part 7),” SETI Institute astronomers Dr. Franck Marchis and Dr. Lauren Sgro highlight two rare and compelling discoveries and the crucial role of citizen scientists ...

For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the ...

Geoengineering startup Stardust Solutions says it has raised $60 million to lay the groundwork for tech that could be used to ...

Jared Isaacman has been renominated to lead NASA, and a document outlining his vision for the agency has been leaked to the ...

As the world approaches critical tipping points, a comprehensive global scientific report shows that resilience—the ability ...