Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA researchers. The exoplanet, known as super-Earth TOI-561b, was discovered in 2020, ...

As missions like Kepler and TESS discovered more rocky exoplanets in recent years, scientists looked forward to the launch of the JWST. The powerful space telescope has the ability to gather infrared ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

"In our solar system, the most massive moon is Ganymede, which is still extremely small compared to what we are inferring here." ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

What can a rocky molten exoplanet with an atmosphere teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to ...

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