Hazy atmospheres might implicate our ability to identify water on other worlds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the ...

Before 1992, it wasn’t entirely clear just how common planets are in the universe. We knew they existed here in our solar system, by virtue of living on one and seeing others in the night sky. Whether ...

Artist's illustration of the limb of a brownish exoplanet, with its small orange host star in the background. An exoplanet orbiting a small star some 50 light-years away from Earth may be a ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers, including Laura Kreidberg and Thomas Mikal-Evans from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany, observed the smallest ...

In a breakthrough, NASA astronomers have identified the smallest exoplanet using a Hubble Space Telescope where water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere. The planet GJ 9827d, at only ...

Peering deep into the fluffy atmosphere of WASP-107b, a team of European astronomers discovered not only water vapor and sulfur dioxide, but even silicate sand clouds. (Klaas Verpoest, Johan Van ...

The planet, which is burning at 800 degrees Fahrenheit (426 degrees Celsius) would be inhospitable, but its discovery opens the door to more than just water. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, ...

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Astronomers, utilizing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have identified water molecules in the atmosphere of GJ 9827d, a small exoplanet located 97 light-years away from Earth. The detection of water on ...