One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It’s called K2-18b, and it’s ...

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"It confirms K2-18 b to be our best chance to study a potential habitable environment beyond the solar system at the present time." The saga surrounding Neptune-size "super-Earth" exoplanet K2-18 b ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that ...

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.

New experiments show young rocky planets can generate water naturally when molten surfaces react with hydrogen in their early atmospheres.

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...