It was arguably the biggest news in science this month: A graduate student in Australia discovered the continent of Africa. What makes Sally Langford’s discovery so remarkable — and worthy of ...

Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...

Weather patterns in a mysterious world beyond our solar system have been revealed for the first time, a study suggests. Layers of clouds, made up of hot dust and droplets of molten iron, have been ...

A distant world unlike any planet in our own Solar System could potentially be “teeming” with life, according to a groundbreaking new study. “We found the strongest evidence to date of possible ...

We live in a golden age of planet discovery. Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, orbiting 1 million miles from Earth, scientists peered closely at the planet AF Lep b, an extremely young ...

An international team of astronomers has shown for the first time that it is possible to map exoplanets using a technique called 3D eclipse mapping or spectroscopic eclipse mapping. By measuring the ...