Astronomers have added two more exoplanets to a growing study aimed at finding out whether rocky worlds near small, faint ...

Jonathon Zhong, Year 12, James Ruse Agricultural High School, NSW - used computer simulations of four different atmospheric condition types to predict the atmospheric composition of exoplanet LHS ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists. The planet, called WD 1856+534 b, is a gas giant exoplanet the size of ...

The TRAPPIST-1 planets, he said, are being researched as potentially habitable, as is LHS 1140b, which he said "is another astrobiologically significant exoplanet, which might be a massive ocean ...

This artist’s impression shows the exoplanet LHS 1140b, which orbits a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth and may be the new holder of the title “best place to look for signs of life beyond the ...

Exoplanet LHS 1140 b was assumed to be a mini-Neptune when it was first discovered by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope toward the end of ... “Given the limited visibility of LHS 1140b, ...

Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than our sun, and more than 5,000 of them have been discovered thus far. However, very few are close enough to us to study thoroughly. In the ...

The exoplanet they studied is known as LHS 1140b. It’s located 48 light-years away in the constellation Cetus, making it one of the closest known exoplanets in its star’s habitable zone.