There's Water on Alien Planets, Just Not As Much as Scientists Thought: Study : Read more The majority of discovered planets are in an inhabitable zone and they must be quite large for us to ...

The seven rocky planets circling the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 have lots of water, a new study suggests — perhaps too much to make them good bets for life.

Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet. A super-Earth about 111 light-years away is “the best candidate for habitability that we know right now,” astronomers say.

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some of the strangest exoplanets that scientists have discovered so far.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected water in the atmospheres of five planets beyond our solar system, two recent studies reveal. The five exoplanets with hints of water are all scorching ...

Every rocky planet likely develops a liquid-water ocean shortly after forming, suggesting that potentially habitable alien worlds may be common throughout the universe, a prominent scientist says ...

ASTRONAUTS visiting Mars could unearth a museum of alien fossils that may have belonged to an intelligent civilisation.

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some of the strangest exoplanets that scientists have discovered so far.

Finding alien life won’t be as dramatic as a flying saucer landing on the White House lawn – it’ll be NASA scientists holding a press conference to excitedly show off a chart that’s ...

Alien planets that really exist. Brandon Specktor. Sat, May 17, ... Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos.