Scientists have discovered possible evidence of life on a planet called K2-18b, which is located 124 light-years from Earth.

Astronomers have long suspected that an enormous, unseen planet is hiding somewhere far beyond Neptune, quietly shaping the ...

The tantalising prospect that we might not be alone in the universe is a step closer to reality thanks to the discovery of a possible sign of life on a distant planet. Nasa's James Webb Space ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor just six light-years away. Using ultra-sensitive instruments, scientists ...

Which means the planet didn’t get accidentally gobbled up in explosive stellar behavior. Instead, the distant world was doomed by a slow orbital death spiral. The new research, published today ...

The Kepler-186 system is home to Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star in the habitable zone -- a range of distances from a star where liquid water might pool ...

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier telescopes or spacecraft. By Robin George Andrews The vermilion ...