Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller ...

When our planet and the incoming sunlight align just right, stunning phenomena such as rainbows and halos can occur. More ...

What new technologies or methods can be developed for more efficient in-situ planetary subsurface analyses? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ...

As the night sky became polluted with light from electrified cities, people built planetariums. Today, they’re more ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

Planet TOI-421b lacks the haze of other exoplanets, which means we're able to get a surprisingly clear understanding of it.

Astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...

The Earth is slowly losing its shine. Its reflectivity – or albedo – is declining, mostly due to vanishing ice cover and fewer clouds. So few, in fact, that 2023 stood out as the year with the lowest ...