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

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

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

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Scientists have discovered a rare six-planet system, HD 110067, where all planets orbit their star in perfect mathematical ...

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

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Our solar system and galaxy were the first objects of study for what was going on in the universe. Among the various ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planetary system that dances to a cosmic rhythm. Located 105 light-years away in the ...

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

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