In a significant breakthrough, scientists have identified three Earth-sized exoplanets in a binary star system, potentially ...

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 ...

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

For the study, the researchers made several remarkable and new discoveries: the two M-type stars that comprise the binary ...

According to the researchers, because it is rocky and located in the star's habitable zone, it may be habitable.

Recent research has challenged the traditional view that water on planets must be delivered from space, suggesting instead that some planets could generate their own water through internal geological ...

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

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

In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely hospitable to life. And as technology advances, astronomers only expect to ...

A trio of newly discovered exoplanets is defying the expectation that binary systems are hostile to planet formation, according to an international team of researchers.

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 ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...