Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...
A planet recently scored 0.836 on the habitability index, slightly higher than Earth, using factors like orbit shape, ...
In a groundbreaking revelation, scientists have unveiled an explosive new map of an exoplanet that annihilates water. This ...
Astronomers have discovered phosphine gas in the atmosphere of an ancient brown dwarf, Wolf 1130C, using the James Webb Space ...
Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have taken the closest-ever look at the dusty regions where planets form, offering new insight into the earliest stages of ...
Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...
A new study using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea serves up the closest-ever view of a planet-forming disk ...
A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...
When stars like the Sun run out of hydrogen in their cores, fusion slows and the outer layers balloon outward. The star can ...
Using JWST, scientists mapped WASP-18b’s atmosphere in 3D, revealing blazing regions where water molecules split apart.
Experiments at high temperatures and pressures reveal chemistry that can generate water on the surface of exoplanets ...