In the search for extraterrestrial life, it makes sense to first look for rocky planets with an atmosphere, like Earth. Without an atmosphere, a planet can't have surface water. But of the more than 6,300 exoplanets cataloged thus far, the vast majority are not rocky, and only a handful of the ...

Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-09-coolest-lava-world-atmosphere-clues.html)

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