The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...

Based on the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique for the first time, the super-Earth, Kepler-725c, with 10 times the mass of the Earth, has been detected within the habitable zone of the Sun-like ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

Hycean worlds are also called ocean worlds. They're planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres.

The researches say that the Hycean Habitable Zone (HHZ), when compared to the terrestrial habitable zone, may include smaller ...

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

NASA's discoveries reveal water's prevalence beyond Earth, from subsurface oceans on moons to vapor in exoplanet atmospheres.

This story is the first article of a two-part Mongabay mini-series exploring possible climate futures. Read Part One.

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

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