All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Astronomers have identified an ultra-light exoplanet orbiting the star TOI-1453, located 250 light-years from Earth. While ...

What if the insides of planets are more complicated than we thought? A new study from scientists at UCLA and Princeton ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

Scientists are confident Mars was once abundant with water, as seen in massive flood-carved channels, ancient river valleys, ...

The team of sky gazers who made the discovery did so using Chile ... be used in the future to help confirm the presence of water on planets much closer than this particular Hot Jupiter.

Curiosity has previously discovered small organic molecules on Mars, but these recently found compounds are larger and would ...

Separately from the discovery made by the Zhurong comes a ... present-day Martian dust that hints to the planet not only being able to support water, but also that it could have been habitable.

a water mantle over a water core. Another, named PSR J1719-1438 b, is believed to be made entirely out of crystal diamond. A member of a Jupiter class of planets that orbit very close to their ...

This is a particularly important measurement because nearly every place on Earth with water also ... evolution of planets,” Vincent Bourrier, one of the scientists who made this discovery ...

Water once existed in abundance of at the surface of Mars. How much of that water has been stored in the planet's crust is still unclear, according to a new analysis.