Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.
Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a rare prize: a world almost the size of Earth, circling a Sun-like star at a ...
A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...
Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...
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.
You may have heard a lot of online chatter about Earth's two moons recently, but that doesn't quite get the discovery right. Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon ...
In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning jewel—a planet around a tiny red dwarf star that may have the right conditions to ...