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Study finds dry exoplanets may not support life without enough water to maintain their carbon cycle, even if they are in the ...

A team of scientists has found a new planet which orbits the wrong way around its host star. The planet, named WASP-17, and orbiting a star 1000 light years away, was found by the UK’s WASP project in ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Scientists have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of the planet tau Boötis b, which orbits a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some 'water worlds' like Jupiter's moon Europa could potentially be habitable for life. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute The search ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

In a significant leap forward in the quest for extraterrestrial life, NASA recently announced the detection of oxygen in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. This revolutionary discovery will be the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It's hard to find planets around other stars. But it's possible - by a variety of subtle methods ...