A TERRIFYING alien planet that “rains glass” lurks just 64.5 lightyears from Earth. Described as a “nightmare world” by Nasa, ...

There might be a type of exoplanet without dry land. They’re called “Hycean” worlds, a portmanteau of ‘hydrogen’ and ‘ocean.’ ...

Earth along with some other planets in our solar system have jet streams too. They're like rivers of high-speed atmospheric ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Exoplanet Proxima b, the closest one to Earth, may be home to a 124-mile deep ocean and marine life. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Science Exoplanet Proxima ...

Lead researcher Michel Mayor, who discovered the first exoplanet ever in ... the surface of the planet. “[Planet] D could even be covered by a large and deep ocean — it is the first serious ...

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term ...

to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet called LHS 1140 b. Their observations confirmed that the nearby planet could have ...

That’s a relatively pleasant wind speed compared to a giant, puffy planet located around 500 lightyears away from Earth. Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a ...

We search for extrasolar planets and determine their properties. We develop models that describe the atmospheres of the planets. We want to find out what makes a planet favourable to life. Through ...

and we are incredibly lucky to be witnessing the final hours of this dying planet." Using NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has reportedly found potential signs of life on a distant planet. The telescope ... is produced by life on Earth, on the exoplanet K2-18b. According to University ...