The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found that a distant world discovered several years ago could be an "eyeball" ...

JUICE successfully identified water and the building blocks of life in Earth's atmosphere. In doing so, the probe headed for ...

What’s more, this watery orb, almost twice as large as Earth, may be our best shot at finding habitable conditions ... temperate planets, adding to the list that begins with LHS 1140 b. But for now, ...

There are hundreds of millions of planets around other stars in our Milky Way galaxy that may be habitable, argues a new research paper. These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission ... If humanity doesn’t manage to completely destroy the planet for ourselves before our sun begins to grow noticeably warmer ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...

A tidally locked planet may seem exotic, but most potentially habitable planets are probably like this. Our closest planetary neighbor, Proxima Centauri b (located in the Alpha Centauri system ...

(CNN)-- As NASA prepares to hunt for Earth-like planets in our ... European Space Agency. It may be rocky and covered in lava. NASA is hoping to find much more habitable worlds with the help ...

Waterworld: up to 50% of the atmosphere of K2-18b may be composed of water Astronomers have for the first time discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of ...

Speaking at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Congress in Spain this week, Dr. Stephanie Olson of the University of Chicago argues that some planets we may find in the so-called “habitable zone ...

may require a larger telescope to achieve the same goals. HWO is an exciting mission and will provide incredible insights into the prevalence of habitable planets. As we learn more about the ...

NASA selected a rather interesting proposal for Phase I development as part of their NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) ...