Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

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A distant Jupiter-like planet has revealed an unexpected secret: water-ice clouds hiding in its atmosphere. The discovery, made with JWST, shows these alien worlds are more complex than scientists ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines ...

Starlight has been the key to finding thousands of exoplanets over the past decade, but researchers have found a new way to ...

Scientists discover desert microbes that produce gases which could help detect life in alien atmospheres beyond oxygen-based ...

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Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected thick, patchy water-ice clouds on Epsilon Indi Ab, a Jupiter-like planet 11.8 light-years away. The finding defies existing atmospheric ...

A team of astronomers led by Elisabeth Matthews at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a discovery that highlights the limits of most current models of exoplanet atmospheres: ...

Usually, comets are dormant blocks of rock and ice. They only wake up when they get close to a star. The intense heat causes ...