The differences between Earth and Venus are obvious to us. One is radiant with life and adorned with glittering seas, and the ...

A newly discovered exoplanet could be worth searching for signs of life. Analyses by a team led by astronomer Diana ...

But that estimate assumes Wolf 1069b has an Earth-like atmosphere, and so far astronomers don’t have enough information about ...

However, according to existing knowledge, it is quite possible that Wolf 1069 b has formed an atmosphere. Under this ...

In a new study, a team of 50 astronomers from around the world have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Wolf 1069 b, which orbits a red dwarf star, Wolf 1069, only 31 light-years ...

Just 31 light-years away, astronomers have identified an incredibly rare Earth-sized world orbiting at a distance from its ...

Hustak (STScI) The big aim, though, is for Webb to detect exoplanet atmospheres. The researchers were able to gather some data on the newly detected planet’s atmosphere and to rule out some ...

When a planet gets that close to its host star, it can have its atmosphere stripped away by the star’s heat and radiation. In the case of the recently discovered exoplanet LHS 475 b ...

Exoplanet LH 475b has a radius about 99 percent the size of Earth’s, but that rocky radius is surrounded by either a choking atmosphere of carbon dioxide — or the vacuum of space, according to ...