Astronomers have recently made an exciting discovery: an exoplanet, merely 12 light-years away from our own planet, is home to liquid water, a crucial ingredient for life as we know it. Understanding ...

Scientists studying the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e may have found hints of an atmosphere. If confirmed, it could be an ...

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of "steam worlds"—exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes that are rich in water but orbit ...

If Dark Matter has particular properties, it could accumulate in the cores of gas giants such as Jupiter, and become black ...