Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

At the heart of some of the oldest rocks in the Earth's crust, an international team has identified a chemical signature ...

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

Astronomers are abuzz with the discovery of a rogue planet, 2MASS J05325346+0919037, which is set to pass within 0.05 ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

While researchers say they've found a potentially habitable planet, it'll take a new generation of telescopes to figure out ...

Located some 620 light-years away in the Chamaeleon constellation, scientists recorded Cha 1107-7626 accreting six to eight ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have discovered a brown dwarf companion orbiting a nearby ...

A team of scientists has made a 'big' discovery about one of the pillars of the global ecosystem using a world-wide network ...

— -- 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 ...