Even JWST can’t separate these tiny planets from their host stars – as they orbit their stars too closely. But there is a way ...
The discovery of a tantalising exoplanet has been made by a team of researchers using ... is the possibility of it hosting a temperate water ocean, which is nearly half the size of the Atlantic ...
A new computer model developed by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics can be used to detect and measure interior ...
"The configuration that we end up with within the solar system is definitely not something that is indeed common," Chen told ...
They could be more like our solar system's ocean moons ... b is the closest exoplanet to Earth, making it an object of intense speculation and study. The TRAPPIST-1 planets made headlines when ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...
How can astronomers determine if an exoplanet has water based on Earth’s geological composition? This is what a recent study ...
Understanding what the clouds are made of is ... an Earth-sized exoplanet in a low orbit around an orange dwarf in the Aquarius constellation, is likely covered in an ocean of magma, with ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space. Illustration of the planet 55 Cancri e, also called Janssen. This is an ...
As energy from the sun reaches Earth, some solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, leading to chemical reactions like ...
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...