A FIERY hell-world that would instantly roast visitors alive has a vast lava ocean – and may be packed with rare gems. The ...

Kepler-56 is a red giant star slightly bigger than our Sun and with two planets around it. But it has a strange spin as its outer layer is moving faster and is also misaligned with its interior. A ...

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

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Morgan Underwood receives funding from NASA-funded CLEVER Planets (Cycles of Life-Essential Volatile Elements in Rocky Planets) research project. When astronomers search for planets that could host ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened a new chapter in planetary science, giving astronomers the ability to observe JWST exoplanets with a level of detail never before possible. Launched as ...

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 ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far. Scientists are even beginning to move beyond mere detections, and working on ...

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Fulfilling further Super Mario Brothers dreams, Nintendo and Illumination just launched the trailer for next year’s animated spectacle "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie." Due in April of 2026, this ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical ...