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

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 ...

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

The post Astronomers Spot The Closest Ever Identified Exoplanet In A Habitable Zone, And It’s In Our Nearest Star System ...

The Origins Federation Conference gathered researchers across disciplines in the search for how life began on Earth—and maybe elsewhere ...

Could scientists find life in the clouds of exoplanet atmospheres? This is what a manuscripton the arXiv preprint server ...

A recently discovered exoplanet, a planet that exists beyond our solar system, called GJ 251c is a super-Earth located just 18 light-years away from our ...

A trio of newly discovered exoplanets is defying the expectation that binary systems are hostile to planet formation, according to an international team of researchers.