It's also how we know an exoplanet has nitrogen ice on its surface versus nitrogen gas. The way a planet makes its parent star wobble also says something about the planet's mass. Giant ...

But recent observations of the exoplanet named WASP-107b reveal an ... high in the atmosphere that can fall like rain onto its surface. The findings, published in June in the journal Nature ...

Water is an important component of exoplanets. It’s not just about habitability, it’s about the planets themselves. Whether ...

The exoplanet known as K2-18 b was first discovered ... around a star in which liquid water could potentially pool on the surface of a rocky planet. And where there's water, there could be clouds ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...

Searching for signals from possible exoplanets within the habitable or temperate zone of Barnard’s star. This zone is the area where liquid water can exist on the planet’s surface. Barnard b ...

In a new study published in Nature, researchers using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a rare glimpse at the surface of one particular exoplanet. The world, called LHS 3844b ...

And what exactly do we mean by habitable anyway? Artist’s concept of the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f, located in the TRAPPIST-1 system. NASA/Tim Pyle/JPL-Caltech The way that most ...

Exoplanet Gliese 12 b is slightly smaller than Earth–about the size of our sister planet Venus–and has a fairly temperate surface temperature for an exoplanet. The intriguing new exoplanet is ...

By using the Direct Imaging Method, which consists of observing how much light is reflected from the surface or atmosphere of the exoplanet, scientists were able garner details about the planet's ...

“Of all currently known temperate exoplanets, LHS 1140 b could well be our best bet to one day indirectly confirm liquid water on the surface of an alien world beyond our solar system,” said ...