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 ...

Even JWST can’t separate these tiny planets from their host stars – as they orbit their stars too closely. But there is a way ...

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

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Exoplanet Proxima b, the closest one to Earth, may be home to a 124-mile deep ocean and marine life. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Science Exoplanet Proxima ...

While the effort to discover new worlds goes on, we're steadily learning more about the exoplanets we've already detected: their sizes, what they're made of ... possibly even oceans of magma.

"We're testing basaltic materials here on Earth to eventually elucidate the composition of exoplanets through the ... basaltic rocks erupting from mid-ocean ridges deep on the ocean floor, versus ...

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 ...

In the journal Nature Astronomy, astronomers announced that the two exoplanets — Kepler-138 c and Kepler-138 d — could be made up of mostly ... covered in oceans," she added.