Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet ...

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Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

For the first time, scientists have created detailed, 2D maps of the sun's outermost atmosphere. This feat was accomplished ...

"Ultimately, this work may help scientists better predict the impact of space weather across the solar system on longer ...

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed ...

Planetary scientist Tom Van Flandern argued that the solar system did not form the way it was taught in schools. He believed Mars was never a true planet, but a moon torn from a much larger world once ...

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

James Webb finds a hot planet that is tidally locked with its parent star, is coated with a thick atmosphere of volatile chemicals.