Super-Earth TOI-561b is about 40 times closer to its host star than Mercury is to the sun.

NASA ’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...

Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system, ...

Webb telescope observations hint that a scorching rocky exoplanet may hold a thick atmosphere above molten rock, defying ...

An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.

For decades, astronomers assumed that small, rocky planets in precarious proximity to their stars were destined to be barren, ...

James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal atmospheric gases above the molten rocky exoplanet TOI-561 b, providing the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere on a tidally-locked ultra-hot ...

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found compelling evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding an ...

Artistic illustration of the internal structure of a lava planet in a cold state, showing a day‑side magma ocean overlain by a mineral atmosphere. The arrows indicate the direction of heat transport ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When scientists find exoplanets around distant stars, a primary consideration is ...