The surface of Uranus’ moon Ariel is coated with a significant amount of carbon dioxide ice, especially on its “trailing...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an MPIA-led team of astronomers imaged a new exoplanet that orbits a star...
The launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2021 kicked off an exciting new era for exoplanet research,...
A team of scientists from Montana State University has provided the first experimental evidence that two new groups of microbes...
Interest in Earth-like planets orbiting within the habitable zone of their host stars has surged, driven by the quest to...
Astronomers have created the most detailed weather report so far for two distant worlds beyond our own solar system. The...
While researching a cluster of stars in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole SgrA* (Sagittarius A*) at the...
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot—the biggest windstorm in the solar system—is shrinking, and a new study may help explain why. Located...
Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the galaxy. These scorching worlds are as massive as Jupiter,...
An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol has shed light on Earth’s earliest ecosystem, showing that...
Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together –...
Planetary scientists are proposing a new definition of a planet to replace one that many researchers view as sun-centric and...