Tag: Exoplanets

A hycean world — one with a global water ocean and a hydrogen-rich atmosphere — orbits a red dwarf star ...

Back to Article List Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a ...

When searching for signs of life on planets outside our Solar System, sometimes nothing is almost as good as something. ...

Four rocky planets much smaller than Earth orbit Barnard’s Star, the next closest to ours after the three-star Alpha Centauri ...

The Kepler-11 system, as imagined from above, is a "peas-in-a-pod" planetary system. Credit: NASA Astronomers have discovered more than 300 ...

The Discovery A possible “super-Earth” orbits a relatively close, Sun-like star, and could be a habitable world – but one ...

The three layers of the atmosphere of the gas giant TylosESO/M. Kornmesser The atmosphere of a distant world has been ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If ...

Illustration of the volcanic exoplanet L 98-59 bNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center An alien world with a seemingly sulphur-filled atmosphere ...

The exoplanet K2-18 b may have an ocean of water beneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere, as shown in this artist’s concept. ...