Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that a distant alien planet's atmosphere is surprisingly lopsided. Located 1,300 light-years away, the scorching gas giant WASP-17b ...

A giant planet more than 1,000 light-years away has an atmosphere that extends farther on one side than the other.

For generations, artists and science-fiction writers have imagined alien landscapes beneath twin sunsets. The image became iconic in popular culture long before astronomers confirmed that planets ...

James Webb Space Telescope image of 14 Herculis c, a planet orbiting a star 60 lightyears away that's one of the strangest ...

In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only ...

Scientists have traced a series of mysterious radio signals to a gigantic alien world 63 light-years from Earth.

For the first time, astronomers have measured the uneven contours of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing how extreme heat and powerful winds reshape a distant world. The discovery, published in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a watery exoplanet with a red dwarf sun overhead. A new study suggests that the exoplanet GJ 3378b, which ...

Some scientists believe the sheer number of stars, planets and potentially habitable environments in space makes ...

A newly discovered baby planet has been identified as the youngest known exoplanet in the galaxy. Approximately one million years old, this unprecedented discovery represents the youngest alien world ...

Honeycomb: The World Beyond impresses in the test with genuine genetic research, but completely forgoes violence and a co-op ...