NASA suspects our galaxy may teem with trillions of planets. Yet even with the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, it's ...
Some 1,800 light-years away from Earth, an extraordinary exoplanet has braved all odds to survive the extreme radiation ...
A lot of people are focused on signs of alien life, but the space telescope will have a lot to say about exoplanet geology and formation.
NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter has discovered a weird world called Phoenix that has managed to hold on to its atmosphere ...
Scientists have already confirmed the presence of two gas planets, Beta Pictoris b and Beta Pictoris c, orbiting it – but any ...
A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that’s twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system, researchers reported Wednesday. The so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among ...
NASA announced last month that researchers detected a thick atmosphere around a rocky planet called 55 Cancri e, which is one of the planets in the TESS-Keck survey catalog. The exoplanet is twice ...
Scientists have found that an item widely used in kitchens can absorb planet-heating carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ... But scientists discovered this changed when they mimicked the process ...
A rare exoplanet that should have been stripped down to bare rock by its nearby host star's intense radiation somehow grew a puffy atmosphere ... the newly discovered planet illustrates the ...