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 ...

Surface air temperature anomaly for January 2024 relative to the January average for the period 1991-2020 shows mostly above average temperatures for the planet except for arts of Russia and the ...

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 ...

An ocean world that’s teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...