The exoplanet, which has been dubbed LHS 1140 b, orbits a red dwarf star which is nearly a fifth the size of the sun and is present 48 light-years away from Earth. It is situated in the ...

Temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b may be a world completely covered in ice (left) similar to Jupiter’s moon Europa or be an ice world with a liquid substellar ocean and a cloudy atmosphere (centre ...

A planet relatively close to Earth could be the first ever detected with a potentially life-sustaining liquid ocean outside our Solar System, according to scientists using the James Webb space ...

The most likely reason (when combined with other observation) for seeing 1000 times more of the chemical DMS would be that exoplanet K2-18B is an ocean planet teeming with life. This ocean filled with ...

The James Webb Space Telescope recently spotted evidence that a planet over 48 light-years away is home to a liquid water ocean.. Exoplanet LHS 1140 b, which has about 1.7 times the radius of ...

The exoplanet LHS 1140 b has been an enticing object for astronomers ever since it was discovered in 2017. That's mainly thanks to its location, a mere 48 light-years away.

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

As much as 95% of an exoplanet's water could be trapped forever deep inside its iron core, transforming what we thought we knew about water worlds and potentially rendering them even more ...