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 ...

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

What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.

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

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

It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named GJ 251c with a minimum mass about 3.84 times that of our own planet. 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.

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

TOI-2267 consists of two stars, both orbited by exoplanets roughly the size of Earth. This is particularly exciting for ...

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

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