The James Webb Space Telescope is turning distant exoplanets from anonymous dots of light into worlds with weather, chemistry, and sometimes even hints of clouds. By dissecting the faint starlight ...

In the long and hallowed history of flight, engineers are writing a new chapter. It’s a chapter that involves skies more distant than the stratosphere of our own world. Space flight designers today ...

Could hazy exoplanet atmospheres be hiding important clues about alien worlds? Many potentially habitable planets orbit small, active stars that frequently unleash powerful bursts of ultraviolet ...