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 ...

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Alien world exploration reveals a dramatic planet covered in glowing molten surfaces and thick storm clouds in deep space.

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our solar system. Their work, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, used ...