Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

Scientists have mapped the atmosphere a planet outside of our solar system in 3D for the first ever time. And they have found a world unlike anything we have ever seen: powerful winds that carry ...

This video reacts to the Kurzgesagt episode about aliens under the ice and the possibility of life on rogue planets drifting through space. It explains how frozen worlds hidden oceans and internal ...

Some exoplanets are scorching hot, while others have supersonic winds. But the latest target of the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), WASP-121b? Well, this exoplanet has titanium rainstorms—a weather ...

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Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know where to look — and that means figuring out which planets are likely to have ...