Even JWST can’t separate these tiny planets from their host stars – as they orbit their stars too closely. But there is a way ...

Scientists are trying to figure out how minerals connected to exoplanetary water would look to the James Webb Space Telescope ...

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...

Scientists have discovered a nearby exoplanet that is just a baby by planetary standards, located 520 light-years away.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

The exoplanet would owe its signature fragrance to sulfur dioxide ... Those chemicals in the planet's atmosphere could hint ...

It's a narrower region around a star where an exoplanet could have surface water. It's defined by an inner runaway greenhouse edge where stellar flux would vaporize surface water and an outer ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will take a new approach in its quest to find water-rich exoplanets. It will analyze ...

So, find those minerals, and you may be getting close to the water that formed them — whether that water lies on an exoplanet's surface or is hidden underground. Of course, this concept assumes ...