Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...
All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...
Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...
And the planet’s moons are even more mysterious ... our century-long fear and desire to make contact with life from outer space, it does so with a winking acknowledgement of how much this ...