Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

Scientists are beginning to read Earth in a different way, not from orbit, but from the surface of the moon. A recent ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Climate can change fast, even when the planet looks stable. Earth has flipped into new patterns within decades in the past.

“This is the first planet candidate with Earth-like radius and orbital properties transiting a Sun-like star bright enough ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

Australian researchers have made a discovery of a potentially habitable planet 150 light years away - but there’s a catch to ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

Another development to look forward to. The post Earth’s Lower Orbit Could Rapidly Collapse, Scientists Warn appeared first ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...