Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, ...

Hazy atmospheres might implicate our ability to identify water on other worlds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the ...

Do certain exoplanets mirror Earth regarding their distribution of iron and water? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Before 1992, it wasn’t entirely clear just how common planets are in the universe. We knew they existed here in our solar system, by virtue of living on one and seeing others in the night sky. Whether ...

Peering deep into the fluffy atmosphere of WASP-107b, a team of European astronomers discovered not only water vapor and sulfur dioxide, but even silicate sand clouds. (Klaas Verpoest, Johan Van ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that the atmosphere of a relatively small planet outside the solar system is rich with water vapor. Don't plan a vacation to this ...

"We are only beginning to discover the true complexity of these worlds." ...

Scientists have simulated conditions that allow hazy skies to form in water-rich exoplanets, a crucial step in determining how haziness muddles observations by ground and space telescopes. The ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for awhile. A new study, published in Nature, describes a process that might ...

"When the Earth's mantle melts, it produces basalts," said Esteban Gazel, professor of engineering. Basalt, a gray-black volcanic rock found throughout the solar system, are key recorders of geologic ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s most powerful telescope ever built, continues to dazzle with its scientific findings both within and outside our solar system. Most recently, an ...

The exoplanet is located seven times closer to its star than Mercury is to our own planet.