A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

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Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - called HD 20794 d - may house water, according to the international research ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

The story of Earth’s atmospheric oxygenation is one of transformation, shaped by both biological and planetary forces. While scientists have long debated the causes behind the stepwise rise of oxygen, ...

NASA’s Pandora mission nears launch, aiming to analyze exoplanet atmospheres for habitability clues. Using infrared ...

They say it is part of a planetary system containing two other ... and test their understanding of the notion of a planet’s habitability. "If there is water on HD 20794 d, it would pass from ...