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 ...

Scientists have finally found a world orbiting the star and confirmed it with multiple follow-up observations. They estimate ...

The exoplanet LHS 1140 b is one of the few in this ... Wednesday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. - 'Best bet' for ocean ...

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 ...

What makes this exoplanet special is the possibility of it hosting a temperate water ocean, which is nearly half the size of the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists have been searching for habitability ...

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.

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