What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

Astronomers used JWST’s coronagraphs in a unique way to capture new images of exoplanets in the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Exoplanets have a remarkable diversity of ... The stellar light that passes through the layers of the planetary atmosphere holds the key to understanding its dynamic patterns.

This makes it very difficult to analyze the atmosphere spectroscopically to establish which gases form the atmosphere on the exoplanet. Venus also has clouds that block most views of its surface, but ...

In addition, a secondary atmosphere was found to surround 55 Cancri e by scientists, and it is thought to be caused by volcanic outgassing on the planet's surface. The secondary atmosphere further ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have delved into the atmosphere of the scorching hot exoplanet LTT 9779 b. "Finding a planet of this size so close to its host star is like ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have delved into the atmosphere of the scorching hot exoplanet LTT 9779 b. Officially named Cuancoá, this Neptune-sized exoplanet was ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest point in 800,000 years, according to ...

The frequency of that stellar wobble reveals an exoplanet’s orbital period and distance from its star, and its strength provides an estimate of the unseen world’s mass. The observations ...