A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars ...

How do ultra-hot Jupiters form and evolve? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated | Space ...

In approximately 4.5 billion years, as the sun transforms into a red giant and engulfs Earth, Jupiter's moon Europa may offer ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking detection of silicon monoxide in the ...

“In the universe, an absolute vacuum is rare, and most of the universe is very low-density high-temperature plasma,” said Chris Impey, an astronomer at the University of Arizona. “In principle, sound ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

The exoplanet Wasp-121b orbits its star in a very close orbit. However, it originated much further away, as researchers have ...

JWST's high-resolution image discovered water vapour, methane, carbon monoxide and silicon monoxide churning around in its ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The US is building multiple major telescopes ...

The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our Solar System. Methane indicates unexpected ...

The first observations of Pluto by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising new behavior of Jupiter that directly affects Earth in ways we are only beginning to ...