For some of us on planet Earth, the search for extraterrestrial planets that could support life is a matter of expanding ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Is there life out there? Another method should make it possible to find habitable planets. A super-Earth in the habitable ...

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 ...