What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...

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 ...

Water has been discovered for the first time in the atmosphere of an exoplanet with Earth-like temperatures that could support life as we know it, scientists revealed on Wednesday.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Water dissolves very well in these magma oceans ... measure the weight and size of an exoplanet. They use these calculations to draw up mass-radius diagrams that permit conclusions to be drawn ...

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 ...

Although exoplanet science is on firm ground now ... such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, oxygen and methane, Seager says. “Any gas is game—because who knows what gases might be produced ...

We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...