The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, Harvard researchers think they have a good explanation for a ...

The surface of Mars averages about -80 degrees Fahrenheit, well too cold to be suitable for microbial life. A method using engineered dust particles released into the atmosphere that could potentially ...

Hot Jupiters, massive worlds that orbit close to their host star, likely weren’t always so hot. Astronomers believe that these exoplanets formed cold, in the outer regions of their star systems, and ...

New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

JWST data hints that Trappist-1e may have an atmosphere. More transits will test if this world could support liquid water.

Astronomers have discovered an unusual Earth-sized exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its other hemisphere tidally locked in perpetual darkness. Co-authors and study leaders ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently captured an extraordinary image of a distant, frigid exoplanet, 14 Herculis c, located 60 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. This ...