Using JWST, scientists mapped WASP-18b’s atmosphere in 3D, revealing blazing regions where water molecules split apart.
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First 3D Map of an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere Revealed

The first world beyond our Solar System to be mapped in three dimensions a gas giant almost ten times more massive than ...
A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...
The US doesn’t currently have much ability to monitor what’s going on in the space around the Moon. An effort by the Air ...
Harvard University is one of the most revered institutions in the world, so when its academics publish new studies, people ...
The description “genre-defying” gets thrown around a lot these days – it is a convenient sticking plaster for any film or series that hasn’t quite figured out what it wants to be. That said, it is an ...
In February 2023, a cosmic particle detector housed deep in the Mediterranean Sea recorded the arrival of a neutrino with approximately 20 to 30 times more energy than any other neutrino documented ...
Extreme marine heat recorded since 2023 might herald the start of a regime shift in the world’s oceans that poses a grave threat to life on Earth, scientists have warned. Record-breaking marine ...
A Windsor resident illegally removed mangrove trees from his Sebastian waterfront property, polluting the Indian River Lagoon in the process, according to county officials. Drone footage, compared ...
NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...
Gavin Schmidt, a leading climate modeller and the boss of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science (GISS) in New York City, is not noted for his humility. Nevertheless, writing in Nature, a journal, ...
2023 was always going to be a hot year, given that warmer El Niño conditions were superimposed on the long-term trend of climate change driven by our greenhouse gas emissions. But it’s not clear ...