The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that ...

A new discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope has given scientists fresh insight into Venus and its potential to host life ...

For decades, when people have imagined alien life, their minds have drifted to Mars or distant exoplanets far beyond our […] ...

Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth's inhospitable neighbor, a tantalizing sign of ...

Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in the 1990s, these in-between cosmic objects aren’t big enough to burn as hot and bright as a true star, instead usually ...

NASA is considering approving by next April up to two planetary science missions from four proposals under review, including one to Venus that scientists involved in the project said could help ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Researchers have found Neptune-like bands of clouds circling the surface of a brown dwarf, an ...