Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

Scientists have for the first time mapped the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, uncovering violent winds and bizarre ...

About 880 light-years from Earth, a hot mess of an exoplanet is slowly spilling its atmosphere into space, creating two ...

Director Julian Glander unpacks the visual design, storytelling choices, and Blender DIY animation methods behind a defining ...

Olympic athletes are always chasing fractions of a second. Now, a Utah research team is testing whether the same cutting-edge ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the University of Montreal ...

Far beyond the reach of any probe, astronomers have found a gas giant whose atmosphere behaves less like a familiar planet and more like a special effect from a big-budget space epic. Orbiting a ...

A new study published in Nature Communications has revealed an unprecedented discovery about the exoplanet WASP-121 b, located in a distant star system. Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope ...

Left: Artistic conception of the longheld astronomical assumption of brown dwarfs resembling Jupiter in appearance, displaying prominent multiple zonal bands and stable vortices similar to the Great ...

Astronomers are scratching their heads at the odd chemistry, which hints at soot clouds and possibly diamond formation deep ...

3I/ATLAS came within 168 million miles of Earth around midnight CST Friday. While that might seem pretty far away, the ...

Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron star under extreme conditions that challenge current models of planetary formation. Scientis ...