A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Astronomers have discovered a large Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star that could be home to alien life. The exoplanet ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

"This planet could play a pivotal role in future missions... to search for biosignatures indicating potential life, " Dr.

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

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

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...

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

Here are some pics of most earth-like exoplanets uploaded by NASA: Gliese 667Cc, 22 light-years from Earth, is 4.5 times Earth's mass, orbits its cooler red dwarf star in 28 days, and likely resides ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...