The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By studying chemical processes in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists are ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

Described as groundbreaking, the detection of water on GJ 9827 d is significant as it's the smallest exoplanet on which water has been identified. "Planet GJ 9827 d could be half water and half ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

Astronomers, utilizing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have identified water molecules in the atmosphere of GJ 9827d, a small exoplanet located 97 light-years away from Earth. The detection of water ...

A paper published in 2023 spurred discussion about whether life exists on an exoplanet named K2-18b. Two years later, the ...

Exoplanets discovered by the transit method ... orbiting their stars at distances that would allow liquid water to exist on their surfaces. To achieve this goal, astronomers require a much larger ...