The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

The Fermi Paradox asks a simple question: if the universe is so vast, why haven’t we detected other civilizations? Yet new perspectives suggest the silence may not mean we are alone. Advances in ...

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges traditional models and supports the idea that planets may form one by one in ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have for the first time identified hydrogen sulfide gas in the atmospheres of three gas-giant exoplanets orbiting HR 8799, a ...

Join Robin Ince and Professor Jen Gupta for an evening of music and astrophysics with THE EXOPLANETS at Hackney Empire. Learn more about the event here!

Astronomers want to collect as much data as possible using as many systems as possible. Sometimes that requires coordination ...

James Webb Space Telescope imagery of the Carina Nebula, Southern Ring Nebula and exoplanet WASP-96 b atmospheric data has been converted into sound by SYSTEM Sounds musicians Matt Russo and Andrew ...

For 15 years, one nearby exoplanet refused to reveal its secrets, its spectrum stubbornly flat, its atmosphere unreadable.

The atmospheres of exoplanets have been a focal point of the field lately, with the James Webb Space Telescope taking a look at as many as it can manage. But time on the world's most powerful space ...

"The most likely explanation for the dimming is a brown dwarf – an object heavier than a planet but lighter than a star – surrounded by a vast and dense ring system." ...