Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Hycean planets, theoretical exoplanets with deep oceans and thick hydrogen atmospheres, could be key targets for detecting ...

Interview The team behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just scored the Simon Ramo Medal, given by the Institute of ...

It focuses on gases called methyl halides, which could reveal the existence of microbial life forms on so-called "hycean" planets—ocean worlds with a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. Direct observation of ...

Hycean planets are expected to orbit red dwarf stars, and the best candidate for a hycean world is the planet K2-18b. This exoplanet, which is categorized as a "sub-Neptune" world, orbits in the ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth. A super-Earth that could explain the universe's mysterious lack of certain ...

Scientists caught a massive and extremely powerful X-class solar flare being spat out from the sun on Friday (March 28), just before the stellar eruption triggered a radio blackout across two ...