Join us on a journey to the Alpha Centauri system,the closest star system to Earth and one of the most promising locations in ...

For centuries, humanity has gazed into the night sky, wondering if there are other planets capable of supporting life. Among the thousands of exoplanets discovered beyond our solar system, most differ ...

NASA recently announced the discovery of a new, Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star called TOI-700. We are two of the astronomers who led the discovery of this planet, called ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.

In their hunt for potentially habitable planets around distant stars, scientists have been so focused on finding Earth-like planets that they're ignoring the possibility that other kinds of ...

A potentially habitable planet about the size of Earth is orbiting the star that is nearest our solar system, according to scientists who describe the find Wednesday in the journal Nature.. The ...

Finding potentially habitable planets, let alone a pair of habitable planet candidates, isn’t easy. Because TOI-700 is located roughly 100 light-years from Earth, the chance of humans visiting ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Scientists have expanded our understanding of potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars by including a critical climate component -- the presence of airborne dust.

Distant, Possibly Habitable Planet Spotted by Citizen Scientists. News. By Samantha Mathewson published 9 January 2019 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

It turns out we don't really understand habitable zones. This artist's depiction shows the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone identified by NASA’s ...