About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

New experiments show young rocky planets can generate water naturally when molten surfaces react with hydrogen in their early atmospheres.

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

A potentially habitable planet, eerily similar to Earth, has been discovered after two decades of painstaking astronomical ...

The latest computational modeling methods were used by scientists to identify real planetary signals from the noise of the ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

New research uses laboratory experiments to demonstrate that water is naturally created during the planet formation process.

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans and ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

According to the researchers, because it is rocky and located in the star's habitable zone, it may be habitable.

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...