Historic first view: Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument captured thermal emissions from exoplanet Kua’kua, enabling the first direct surface study of a rocky world beyond our solar system. Harsh planetary ...

Historic first view: Using JWST’s infrared capabilities, scientists directly studied the surface of rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b for the first time. Mercury-like world: The planet is a tidally locked, ...

A rocky planet nearly 50 light-years away appears to be airless, dark, and covered in volcanic or weathered rock, according ...

A team of scientists has succeeded in bringing to the surface a long, 1,268-meter section of rocks from the Earth's Mantle.

A nearby “super-Earth” is giving scientists a rare look at the bare surface of a distant world, and it’s far from Earth-like.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly analyzed the surface of a distant super-Earth, revealing a ...

Using MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers led by former MPIA ...

New research suggests that many planets previously considered promising for life may, in fact, be far less hospitable. A ...

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...