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 ...

For decades, the search for alien life has revolved around a narrow ring around stars where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. That “habitable zone” remains important, but astronomers are ...

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 ...