The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...

Exoplanet science is shifting from finding any detectable exoplanets we can to searching for those in their stars' habitable ...

Kepler-725c is roughly 2,472 light years from Earth, circling a G9V star in about 207.5 days. Its path brings it into a ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the ...

In other words, the frequency of these hydrogen ... 10.3847/1538-3881/ac52ed Queen Mary University of London; "Habitable' planet GJ 581d Previously Dismissed as Noise Probably Does Exist' (2015 ...

SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool.

The breakthrough came using a cutting-edge observational method that detects unseen planets via subtle deviations in their ...

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list for ...

Every year, Earth follows a familiar pattern of seasonal changes: As summer rolls around in the Northern Hemisphere, winter creeps in in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. But do other ...