Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our ...

Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer into the atmosphere of an exoplanet 35 light-years away from Earth.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

The hunt for alien life is about to get a massive boost with the launch of a state-of-the-art space telescope designed to ...

Scientists have discovered a nearby exoplanet that is just a baby by planetary standards, located 520 light-years away.

An international team of astronomers has reported the detection of a new super-Jupiter exoplanet as part of the Next ...

The youngest exoplanets are actually still protected from certain detection methods by dust disks. In a "strange" case, this ...

How can astronomers determine if an exoplanet has water based on Earth’s geological composition? This is what a recent study ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will enable scientists to detect the faint light ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

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