On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius ...

Up to 200 worlds investigated by NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite could be bigger than predicted, a finding that could ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

In new research, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how more than 200 known exoplanets are likely much ...

NASA has uncovered a new ‘Super Earth’ planet just 154-lightyears away that has been flashing a mysterious signal. The planet ...

Earth" that is located about 154 light-years away and is nearly twice as big and four times as massive as our planet.

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some of the strangest exoplanets that scientists have discovered so far.

One way to find water worlds beyond our solar system could be to look for minerals — or more specifically, to study minerals mixed with cool lava on exoplanet surfaces.

Scientists compile library for evaluating exoplanet water Date: November 14, 2024 Source: Cornell University Summary: By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists ...

Long thought to be completely disordered, space ice appears to have some crystallized regions, new research suggests.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found water swirling in the air of a distant alien planet, a new study reports. That exotic world is TOI-421 b, a boiling-hot "sub-Neptune" orbiting a ...