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 ...

Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to make 1st 3D map of exoplanet — and it's so hot, it rips apart water ...

In the search for alien life, one Cornell researcher says color may be a telltale sign of biosignatures on far-off exoplanets ...

A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

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

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

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

How many planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, exist throughout the Milky Way Galaxy? While that might never be determined, NASA recently announced the total number of confirmed ...

How will NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other exoplanets, specifically Earth-sized exoplanets within the habitable zone, also ...

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