A rare exoplanet that should have been stripped down to bare rock by its nearby host star's intense radiation somehow grew a puffy atmosphere instead—the latest in a string of discoveries forcing ...

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That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

It took a few attempts, but JWST has finally found strong evidence of an atmosphere around a rocky world outside our solar system. To add to the intrigue, this isn’t the planet’s original atmosphere — ...

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the "habitable zone," the region around a star where ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a wedding cake ...

Early results on the fourth planet from the TRAPPIST-1 star suggest it lost its original atmosphere to space long ago, and it ...

Astronomers have detected over 5,800 confirmed exoplanets. One extreme class is ultra-hot Jupiters, of particular interest because they can provide a unique window into planetary atmospheric dynamics.