A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...

Astronomers have identified what they say is the first confirmed atmosphere surrounding a rocky planet inside a habitable ...

Whenever I tell people I’ve discovered a new exoplanet, invariably the first question is: "Could we live there?" In some cases, it’s very easy to answer with an outright "No". Gas giants orbiting very ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new planetary habitability model could make the search for aliens more efficient by quickly identifying rocky worlds unlikely to ...

Astronomers have revised the mass of nearby exoplanet GJ 3378 b, recasting it as a rocky super‑Earth in the habitable zone and renewing interest in its potential to host alien life.

There is no chance in hell our species will be able to reach another Earth-like planet in the Universe in the foreseeable future, so the only way we can get a sense of the habitability of such places ...

The search for life beyond Earth has marked a new discovery — evidence of an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet beyond our Solar System with modelling suggesting it may be a water world.

As the famous lullaby attests, the diamond-like stars above have always been our companions. And with recent astronomical advances, we can explore a pressing existential enigma: do these same stars ...