New experiments show young rocky planets can generate water naturally when molten surfaces react with hydrogen in their early atmospheres.
About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...
Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...
When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...
How do moons form around gas giant planets? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes ...
As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...
Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.
Newly discovered multi-wavelength view of a stellar eruption on a young Sun-like star is changing how we think about life's ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed look at a carbon-rich disk surrounding the exoplanet CT Cha ...
The Origins Federation Conference gathered researchers across disciplines in the search for how life began on Earth—and maybe elsewhere ...
Could scientists find life in the clouds of exoplanet atmospheres? This is what a manuscripton the arXiv preprint server ...
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 ...