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 ...

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

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

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

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

NASA's TESS telescope has discovered an intriguing exoplanet, TOI-1453 c, located 250 light-years away, with an unusually low ...

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

Carbon dioxide detected in the atmosphere of exoplanets. The post Carbon Dioxide in Distant Exoplanets Discovered By ...

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

Not having an atmosphere, which traps important gases like oxygen and water vapor ... likely clobers any orbiting exoplanets with radiation, a new study finds. Credit: ESO / M.

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