It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

A red dwarf 130 light-years away has just rewritten the rules of space weather. For the first time, astronomers have captured definitive evidence of a massive coronal mass ejection from a star other ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's depiction of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a sunlike star. | Credit ...

Atmospheric insights into alien worlds emerge as JWST studies filtered starlight passing through distant exoplanet atmospheres. Pixabay, Vilkasss The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a ...