In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the ...

NASA hopes to launch Pandora this coming fall, and the completion of the spacecraft bus is a big step toward making that a ...

The hunt for aliens goes hand in hand with the hunt for habitable planets. Astronomers are on the hunt for exoplanets with ...

An international team of astronomers has reported the detection of a new exoplanet orbiting a bright late F-type star. The ...

Gravitational pull from an orbiting planet changes the radial velocity of the star's rotation, which telescopes like Webb can detect. Exoplanets also reflect light that's Doppler shifted according ...

The first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, had just been announced, and almost no-one believed it. The method used to detect it was indirect, the signal was small, and the data were hard to parse.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have characterized the atmosphere of a hot super-Neptune exoplanet designated WASP-166 b. As a result, they found that the atmosphere of this ...

Researchers at KAUST, Saudi Arabia, have made significant strides in neuromorphic computing by developing a reconfigurable ...

NASA's Pandora mission, equipped with advanced infrared tech, will analyze 20+ exoplanets' atmospheres for water and clouds, ...