Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) say they have found the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere around a rocky world outside our solar system. The findings challenge the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere rich with carbon and helium, which is unexpected on this hot planet ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

For decades, scientists treated Martian dust storms as mostly mechanical events, driven by wind and sunlight rather than ...

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered almost a decade ago about 40 light-years from Earth. The TRAPPIST-1 system ...

An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.

Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet ...

Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system, challenging previous notions that small planets that orbit closely to their stars ...

The Moon has no real atmosphere, but Earth has, in a sense, been generously trying to share its own for billions of years.

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our solar system.

A recent stellar occultation in 2019 indicated a rapid collapse of Pluto's atmosphere, with pressure decreasing over 20% since 2016, contrasting with previously observed growth since 1988. Pluto's ...

We now have a clearer picture of how the atmosphere cleanses itself of air pollution and harmful gases. With their recent study, an international team headed by scientists from the National Oceanic ...