The detection of a potentially rocky world around a nearby star opens up unprecedented prospects for the atmospheric ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a nearby super Earth that could potentially support alien life — drawing comparisons to theories surrounding Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS, which some ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...

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

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 ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.

Exoplanets like HD 189733b, Tres-2b, and TOI-849b display extreme conditions from glass rain to near-total darkness, offering insight into the diversity of planets beyond our solar system.

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

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 ...