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 ...

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

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

As energy from the sun reaches Earth, some solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, leading to chemical reactions like ...

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 ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

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 ...

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.