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

Scientists detect heavy water in a planet-forming disk for the first time, revealing ancient cosmic origins. Read the full ...

With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

New research suggests that planets outside our solar system contain far less surface water than scientists once believed. Contrary to earlier theories that these exoplanets might be covered by deep ...

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

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more ...

Temperatures on the planet could make water theoretically possible. Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named TRAPPIST-1 e, ...

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