A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.
NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...
When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...
— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of TRAPPIST-1d transiting its star, seen from up close. Two other worlds, ...
Astronomers are on a constant search for life out in the universe and a big part of that search is finding planets where life can even form. But for a while scientists have been getting repeating ...