LHS-1140b, the discovery of which was announced just a few years ago, has a radius around 1.73 times that of Earth's and 5.6 times its mass; bigger than our own planet but still small enough to be ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found that a distant world discovered several years ago could be an "eyeball" planet with an iris-like ocean surrounded by a sea of solid ice — making ...

A team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge say they are closer to a statistically significant scientific finding that would show the signs of life they detected from the distant ...