Kepler-452b is one of the most Earth-like planets ever discovered, orbiting a star much like our Sun. Located over 1,400 ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- An eighth planet has been found in a faraway solar system, matching our own in numbers. Even more amazing, machines and not humans made the discovery. NASA joined with Google ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

NASA has discovered a new super-Earth that has a year only lasting a few hours. The exoplanet K2-141b, was found very close to its orange sun-like star, and has an orbital period of less than one ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...

Two super-Earth-sized planets were discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft orbiting a nearby sun-sized star known as HD 3167, located 150 light years away. While Kepler lost two of its four reaction ...

The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...

There's something wrong with Kepler, the sun-orbiting spacecraft at the center of NASA's mission to identify Earth-like, habitable planets orbiting other stars. And if the space agency's engineers can ...

The conditions favouring the rise of advanced aliens are much rarer than previously thought, according to a new study, which ...