IN the modern age, it’s hard to imagine that there’s anywhere on Earth that we haven’t fully explored. But there are surprisingly large chunks of Earth that civilisation has yet ...

The Star Mountains are in Papua New Guinea, a nation known for being poorly explored. In fact scientists think there are lots of planets and animals still waiting to be discovered there.

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...

The search is on for habitable alien worlds, and eventually for ... “we can get down to planets that straddle where we think the cosmic shoreline is,” Kempton said, “and map out where that boundary is ...

This creates extreme weather conditions that have fascinated astronomers, marking a major breakthrough for our understanding of the atmosphere and weather of alien worlds. “This planet’s ...

One such planet is the ultra-hot Jupiter known as WASP-121b, nicknamed Tylos – a world so extreme it defies expectations. Located around 900 light-years away in the Puppis constellation ...

This is what textbooks have taught us over the years but beyond the realm of humankind inhabiting Earth -- out in the alien world ... even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a wedding cake on a ferociously ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a wedding ...

One of the holy grails of modern astronomy is finding life on an alien planet. But that is an extremely daunting task. The James Webb Space Telescope is unlikely to be able to identify ...