The Earth enters the solar system, where life turned out to be better than on Earth. The moon is trying to choose a new earth ...

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

Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress ...

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

When the Sun expands into a red giant, it will swallow the inner solar system and raise the temperature in the outer regions.

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 ...

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

Astronomers have added two more exoplanets to a growing study aimed at finding out whether rocky worlds near small, faint ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of one of the coldest and oldest known ...

During the red giant phase, both the Sun and Jupiter will shine brighter and become hotter. However, its moon Europa is ...

The idea of terraforming Mars—essentially reshaping the planet to support Earth life—has captured imaginations for decades.