An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a complex planetary nebula known as NGC 6302. The observations, detailed in a paper published Feb. 25 ...

Tom Hiddleston returns as narrator for a bigger, wilder chapter set deep in the Pleistocene. One of Apple’s most ambitious natural-history projects is finally returning. “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age” ...

Beyond the rocky planets in the solar system is an extensive area of cold, huge planets that are quite unlike Earth, as they all have incredibly thick atmospheres, extreme temperature fluctuations, ...

For decades, planetary scientists could not get a direct look at a cold, mature giant planet beyond our solar system. Instruments were not powerful enough to isolate the faint infrared glow of a world ...