Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere - a trait considered ...

Gas bubbling up from a lava-covered surface on the exoplanet 55 Cancri e may feed an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide or ...

Gas bubbling up from a lava-covered surface on 55 Cancri e may feed an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide.

Instead, scientists say the discovery is a promising sign that other such rocky planets with thick atmospheres could exist ...

Instead, scientists say the discovery is a promising sign that other such rocky planets with thick atmospheres could exist ...

An Earth-size planet discovered around a nearby star offers astronomers their first chance for exoplanetary geology.

Astronomers at MIT, the University of Liège, and elsewhere have discovered a new planet orbiting a small cold star, a mere 55 ...

Instead, scientists say the discovery is a promising sign that other such rocky planets with thick atmospheres could exist ...

Astronomers are abuzz with the recent discovery of Gliese 12 b, an exoplanet (planet outside our solar system) that’s ...

Scientists have discovered a new Earth-sized planet only 40 light years away which could potentially support human life. The ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, R. Crawford (STScI), CC BY 4.0 For the first time, astronomers have discovered an atmosphere surrounding a rocky exoplanet—but it isn’t the atmosphere that the planet started ...

Scientists at the University of Warwick say they have been part of an international team to discover a new new habitable Earth-sized planet. Working with NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), they ...