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, ...

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Astronomers have spent the past decade cataloguing thousands of planets beyond the solar system, many of them falling into a ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the most compelling evidence to date that a rocky planet beyond the solar system may have an atmosphere. Although it’s not Earth-like, a planet called ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through innovative techniques.

Sub-Neptune planets, often billed as possible "water worlds," may be more desert than deep sea, according to a new study. For years, scientists thought these planets, which are larger than Earth but ...