She added that even if a planet is technically in a "habitable zone," it would still require enough water to maintain a stable atmosphere for life. White-Gianells would know more than most ...

A nearby alien planet six times the size of the Earth is covered with a water-rich atmosphere that includes a strange "plasma form" of water, scientists say. Astronomers have determined that the ...

Water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere of a planet 124 light years - or 729 trillion miles - from Earth. The planet is about the size of the gas giant Neptune, and is the smallest and ...

A strange planet that's stymied astronomers for years has an "unusually shiny atmosphere" and could be home to large amounts of water vapor, scientists said in a study published Wednesday in the ...

Scientists theorize the exoplanet known as LHS 1140 could resemble a snowball planet, with liquid water on the side that always faces the star it orbits. It lies in the so-called “Goldilocks ...

A distant white dwarf is surrounded by space ... which is right in the middle of the range for liquid water. This means that if there is a planet there, it could have the right temperature for ...