Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

"The detection of heavy water … proves the water's ancient heritage and provides a missing link between clouds, disks, comets ...

If alien life exists on the newly discovered JG 251 c, we could know about it in the next 10 years.

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength ...

A recently discovered exoplanet, a planet that exists beyond our solar system, called GJ 251c is a super-Earth located just 18 light-years away from our ...

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

Dr. Eric Ford, director of Penn State’s Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, explains the search for planets beyond our solar system, focusing on those in the “habitable zone” where liquid ...

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with distinct temperature ...

The Penn State team discovered the exoplanet using the Habitable-Zone Planet Finder (HPF), a high-resolution spectrometer at the McDonald Observatory in Texas that operates in the near-infrared ...

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

The rocky exoplanet is nearly four times Earth's mass and may offer new insights in the search for habitable worlds.