When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

For decades, the search for alien life has revolved around a narrow ring around stars where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. That “habitable zone” remains important, but astronomers are ...

One of seven Earth-sized planets, TRAPPIST-1d, caught the attention of NASA researchers and is one of the promising planets ...

The results show a circular “hotspot” on the side of the planet that always faces its star, surrounded by a cooler ring at ...

Can planets orbiting M dwarf stars become habitable, or does the star’s activity prevent it? This is what a recent study ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby ...

With temperatures reaching almost 2,000 degrees Celsius on its dayside, LTT 9779 is one of the few known planets in the "hot ...

As Santa sits at the North Pole anticipating the discovery of life on some far-flung planet he might be somewhat nervously scanning the latest scientific literature to see which exoplanets are hot top ...

A Falcon 9 launched 140 payloads on its latest rideshare mission Nov. 28, ranging from European government spacecraft to a ...