The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...
Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...
The Australian discovery of a strange exoplanet orbiting a small cool star 500 light years away is challenging ideas about how planets form. “We have found a small star, with a giant planet the size ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, ...
Located 163 light-years from Earth, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet named WASP-69b offers astrophysicists a window into the dynamic processes that shape planets across the galaxy. The star it orbits is ...
Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...
Could alien life exist on planets nothing like Earth? Scientists think a surprising new method could unravel this mystery. Researchers from the University of California, Riverside, suggest that ...