NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected a carbon-rich atmosphere on a tiny world orbiting a dead, rapidly spinning star, and no existing model of planet formation can account for what the data ...

Aliens have long been a staple of science fiction. Yet the possibility of intelligent life beyond Earth is more than a matter of imagination—it is also a subject of serious scientific inquiry.

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric models. By directly imaging Epsilon Indi Ab with the James Webb Space ...