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.’ ...

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

Planets beyond our Solar System are called exoplanets The first exoplanet ... "Now, whether this planet really has an ocean at the surface or rock, we cannot tell with current observations ...

With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own ...

Most of the exoplanets known today are located close ... exchange of vital substances at the interface between the ocean and the planet's mantle. The new study now reaches a different conclusion ...

Two significant additional discoveries-the identification of twin water worlds, Kepler-138c and d, and the existence of water ...

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And that’s exactly what scientists have been doing for decades: searching for exoplanets ... This method allows them to calculate each planet's volume, based on how much of the star's light ...

Potentially habitable exoplanets are so incredibly common that ... found on the moon of a hot Jupiter or lingering in the warm ocean of a rogue planet. Recently, there has even been the idea ...