This "unusual family of super-Earths" around the star, named GJ9827, was spotted by researchers at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in the US.
Using Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, scientists studied the "hot Saturn" called WASP-39b and by dissecting starlight filtering through the planet's atmosphere into its component colors, they found clear evidence for a large amount of water vapor, almost three times as much water as our Saturn does.
During the study, researchers analyzed the atmospheric contents of ancient and present-day earth, and finally discovered the chemical combination which they call biosignatures
The NASA's Spacecraft Juno on its 10th space trip has taken the raw images of Jupiter and when they are enhanced by editing the color and contrast, this is how they look -- artistic and beautiful.
PSLV would launch 31 satellites in its next launch mission on January 10, 2018. Some of the major missions planned for the launch includes nanosatellites.
The 'most mysterious star in the galaxy' Tabby's star has been showing brightening and dimming effects for a long time and it is due to dust clouds around it, not aliens.
Here are 10 of the most popular science news of the year, which varies from social and behavourial sciences, to climate change, biology and, also to astronomy
One year passes in the blink of an eye in terms of the age of our universe, but 2017 has made significant contributions towards unravelling the deep mysteries hidden in its vast expanse, giving the search for alien life a big boost.
The astronomers have made a series of amazing discoveries in the space arena in the year 2017 that has eventually led the space buffs to get new interesting information.
A Google employee Chris Shallue, along with a University of Texas doctoral fellow, found two new planets using AI and all these were acieved via one of Shallue's side projects
The details of the mission concept was presented by Anthony Freeman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the 2017 American Geophysical Union conference in New Orleans.
The Google Artificial Intelligence (AI) has helped NASA discover two exoplanets: an eighth planet revolving around Kepler-90, called Kepler-90i, and a sixth planet in the Kepler-80 system.
Nasas Kepler Space Telescope discovered an 8th planet orbiting a distant sun-like star called Kepler-90. The discovery was made with the help of Googles AI technology. Scientists say the AI technology can pick up findings that have been missed in previous analyses of Kepler data.