Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so ...

A recent study has unveiled how chemical elements and powerful winds shape the atmosphere of a planet far beyond our solar system.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected potential biosignatures on the exoplanet K2-18b, raising new excitement about the ...

Astronomers have discovered by looking through an exoplanet's atmosphere and mapping its 3D structure for the first time ...

Scientists suggest alien life may be microscopic, surviving in extreme environments like toxic clouds, icy moons, or even ...

Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...

Wind speeds of up to 70,000 kilometres per hour and clouds of vaporised metal: extreme climate conditions on the exoplanet ...

Scientists at NASA say an asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, has a 3.1% probability of hitting Earth in 2032. That's up about 1% from just a few days ago. The asteroid is roughly the size of the Statue of ...

It is so ferociously hot that the “exoplanet” features iron in the form of a gas in one layer of its atmosphere, while a jet ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.