When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

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Could scientists find life in the clouds of exoplanet atmospheres? This is what a manuscripton the arXiv preprint server ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

The JWST has detected hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, and dimethyl sulfide in the atmosphere of a habitable sub-Neptune, ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

A recently discovered exoplanet, a planet that exists beyond our solar system, called GJ 251c is a super-Earth located just 18 light-years away from our ...

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It’s called K2-18b, and it’s ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

The Origins Federation Conference gathered researchers across disciplines in the search for how life began on Earth—and maybe elsewhere ...