Astronomers detected hundreds more new worlds beyond the solar system this year and worked to better understand what makes ...

Extraterrestrial civilizations need a great deal of energy as they advance up the Kardashev scale. Fossil fuels are finite, ...

Scientists using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope sought to observe a planet beyond our solar system (an exoplanet) ...

"We would have loved to find that Venus was once a planet much closer to our own, so it’s kind of sad in a way to find out ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Exoplanet Proxima b, the closest one to Earth, may be home to a 124-mile deep ocean and marine life. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Science Exoplanet Proxima ...

And while the new data suggests an ocean of water might sit below the exoplanet's atmosphere, it is still possible that the ocean may be too hot either to be liquid or for life to survive.

In terms of exoplanets, the researchers said exploration ... "On Earth, if you have basaltic rocks erupting from mid-ocean ridges deep on the ocean floor, versus those erupting on ocean islands ...

Yet a recent study in the journal Nature Astronomy strongly suggests Venus was always hostile to life. Scientists from the ...

Exoplanet Proxima b, the closest one to Earth, may be home to a 124-mile deep ocean and marine life.

Ever since astronomers announced the discovery of seven exoplanets around the star called ... the chance at sustaining an ocean on its surface. The research was published in The Astrophysical ...