A new study suggests mysterious water worlds may be manufacturing their own oceans through chemical reactions deep within ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a ‘super-Earth’ less than 20 light-years away, which could ...

As far as extrasolar planets go, ‘GJ 367 b’ is a featherweight. With half the mass of Earth, the newly discovered planet is one of the lightest among the nearly 5000 exoplanets known today. It takes ...

55 Cancri e is too hot to support life as we know it, but could provide clues about Earth’s formation. Astronomers say that they have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect for the first ...

Located 163 light-years from Earth, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet named WASP-69b offers astrophysicists a window into the dynamic processes that shape planets across the galaxy. The star it orbits is ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...

The activity of the solid Earth – for example, volcanoes in Java, earthquakes in Japan, etc – is well understood within the context of the ~50-year-old theory of plate tectonics. This theory posits ...

A spacecraft en route to spy on Jupiter and its moons has snapped a rare and excitingly high-definition picture of the Earth's radiation belt. The European Space Agency's Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons ...