Right now, as a passenger on planet Earth, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. But why can't you feel it?

University of California, Irvine Generally, scientists agree that the chances of our planet being the only one in the universe that hosts life is highly improbable. And yet, up to this point, despite their best efforts,

NASA ’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system has air, even though it orbits precariously close to its star.

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for signs of an atmosphere—and potentially life-supporting conditions. Early James Webb observations hint at methane,

Astronomers have identified the clearest signs yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet outside our Solar System, marking a major step in understanding extreme worlds. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a Carnegie-led team studied TOI-561 b, an ancient and blistering super-Earth that orbits its star in only 10.56 hours.

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late 1700s through 1849 compared with 1850-1900 — the latter being what scientists have defined as the “preindustrial” baseline period used to assess the planet’s temperature change.

Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet racing around its star in under 11 hours. Despite being blasted by intense radiation that should strip it bare,

Webb Telescope detects an atmosphere on TOI-561 b, a scorching rocky planet once thought too small and hot to hold onto its gases.

Every second, our planet is racing through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour, yet the air outside the window usually feels calm. That apparent stillness hides a web of forces, from orbital mechanics to microscopic gases,