The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

NASA has discovered a new planet nearly 146 light-years from Earth that shows remarkable similarities to our planet. Named ...

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.

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

Dubbed HD 137010 b, the planet might fall just within the outer edges of its star's 'habitable zone', meaning there could be liquid water on its surface and a suitable atmosphere for life.

NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

Now, a discovery by NASA has raised the tantalising possibility that we're not alone after all. The US space agency has ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up surprises. A new paper reveals the latest: a possible rocky planet slightly larger ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Nintendo capped off today’s partner-focused Nintendo Direct with a flurry of Bethesda-related announcements, but arguably the ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that it’s only been seen once—and may never be glimpsed again ...

Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...