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

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 ...

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 ...

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

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Rising carbon dioxide levels are driving an increase in the ocean’s acidity – and this change is sinking deeper as emissions ...

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