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 ...

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.

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 ...

The JWST has detected hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, and dimethyl sulfide in the atmosphere of a habitable sub-Neptune, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...

What can a 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach astronomers about the planet’s formation, evolution, and composition?

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

How do moons form around gas giant planets? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes ...

The study revealed that TOI-2267 has two closely bound stars orbiting each other, and the third planet transits the companion ...

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

Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that high-pressure reactions between ...