Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

A newly discovered planet sits in the habitable zone of its star, where temperatures are right for liquid water if the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- An eighth planet has been found in a faraway solar system, matching our own in numbers. Even more amazing, machines and not humans made the discovery. NASA joined with Google ...

NASA has discovered a new super-Earth that has a year only lasting a few hours. The exoplanet K2-141b, was found very close to its orange sun-like star, and has an orbital period of less than one ...

Is there a Gorsuch Ski Café on Kepler-245b? It’s unlikely I’ll find the answer but I’m certain that one day, Kepler-245b will ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Humans are finally building the technology that could tell us where to look, when to look, and what signs to watch for. What might we find? Why does it matter?

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

Two super-Earth-sized planets were discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft orbiting a nearby sun-sized star known as HD 3167, located 150 light years away. While Kepler lost two of its four reaction ...

The conditions favouring the rise of advanced aliens are much rarer than previously thought, according to a new study, which ...

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.