I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear obliteration of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a distant exoplanet that should be impossible. The ultrahot super-Earth, named TOI-561 b, is surrounded by a thick atmosphere of hot gas that blankets ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified several surprising molecules in the scorching clouds of a "hellish" alien world. One of the compounds has never been seen in ...