Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery.

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

The study shows that there may be more than 16,000 reptile species on Earth, of which only about 12,000 have been formally described, including this hump-nosed viper from India. (John J. Wiens via ...

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Even as some scientists search for signs of life beyond Earth, other researchers have been discovering new species on our own humble planet faster than ever before. From high up in the mountains to ...

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Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed an entirely new type of exoplanet whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how this type of planet forms. This ...

Is it a two-for-sun deal. Astronomers were blown away after discovering a bizarre exoplanet that orbits twin stars closer than any ever seen before in a binary star system, per a starry study ...