Scientists recently announced they had found potential signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth. While the bold claim has been challenged, the mere prospect is enough to inflame a ...

One of the coldest planetary-mass objects ever discovered has finally revealed its secrets. After years of failed attempts using ground-based telescopes, astronomers used the James Webb Space ...

Launched in December 2021 after three decades of development and at a cost of some $10 billion, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the biggest investments ever made in astronomy. That ...

If you find yourself on an ice planet, either something has gone wrong, or it’s gone horribly wrong. Science fiction stories are littered with frost-covered globes, and they usually break down into ...

Three nights, three sets of speakers and fun for Pasadena's "City of Astronomy" festival, which invites the public to one, ...

As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Not all those who wander are lost.” But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are. Rogue planets—planets that are adrift in ...