Scientists have created the first weather map of a space oddity known as a brown dwarf, revealing a rare glimpse at alien weather patterns on the failed, wannabe star. The map shows the weather on ...

In a groundbreaking study published in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers have discovered high-velocity gas clouds near ...

Comets detected around other stars appear strikingly similar to the most primitive comets in the solar system, researchers say.The discovery suggests that matter around distant stars mixed in ways ...

Clouds On Alien Planet Mapped for 1st Time (Image) News. By Nola Taylor Tillman published 2 October 2013 ... The cloudy planet orbits the star, Kepler-7, once every five days; ...

Powerful winds sweep sparkling, gem-bright clouds through the upper atmosphere of the huge alien planet HAT-P-7b, a new study suggests. "This is the first detection of weather on a gas giant ...

A mysterious star that sent alien-hunters scrambling for their telescopes over the last couple of years is finally yielding some of its secrets. The star – nicknamed Tabby’s Star – has ...

THE best place to find alien life might be in the dust clouds of failed stars, a new theory suggests. By Sean Martin 16:57, Tue, Dec 6, 2016 | UPDATED: 17:02, Tue, Dec 6, 2016 ...

This illustration shows a star behind a shattered comet. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech) That mysterious “alien megastructure” star is still a mystery, but the most plausible explanations appear ...

Water and alien clouds HAT-P-26b lies about 430 light-years away from Earth. The alien planet circles very close to its host star, completing one orbit every 4.2 Earth days.

WASP-96b's sodium fingerprint is a clear, "tent-like" shape unobstructed by clouds. (Image credit: N. Nikolov/E. de Mooij) This characterizing spectrum appears in the shape of a camping tent.

Comets detected around other stars appear strikingly similar to the most primitive comets in the solar system, researchers say.