The James Webb Space Telescope is not just revealing the wonders of the universe to us. Astronomers can also use this powerful eye on the cosmos to figure out what the weather is on distant alien ...
Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...
For decades, the search for alien life has revolved around a narrow ring around stars where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. That “habitable zone” remains important, but astronomers are ...
What can a 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach astronomers about the planet’s formation, evolution, and composition? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as ...
An international team of astronomers, including a specialist from NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), has created the first-ever ...
For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside our solar system. Attached to a particularly mysterious alien world, the newly charted atmosphere ...
On this week’s episode of our YouTube exclusive show Space Beat, host Rob Landers and space team reporter Eric Lagatta discuss newly discovered evidence of UFOs in the skies around our nuclear test ...
An alien world near Earth is being trailed by a gigantic tail, stretching longer than 40 Earths as it closely circles its home star. The enormous structure, which is made up of gas leaking from the ...