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

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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 newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

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, ...

It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named GJ 251c with a minimum mass about 3.84 times that of our own planet. The ...

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 ...

Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...