There is a classification of planets out there in the cosmos colloquially referred to by astronomers as Eyeball Planets. The ...

Located 50 light-years from Earth, LHS-1140b is roughly 1.73 times wider than our planet and 5.6 times its mass. It is tidally locked to its host star. This means it rotates at the same rate as it ...

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

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this ...

Does this mean that Kepler-725c is only habitable for part of its 207.5-Earth-day year? What would happen to any life that might exist on the planet during the periods that it is outside of the ...

THE famously desolate Mars landscape could be scattered with trees to the untrained eye, according to a recently shared Nasa ...

NASA’S Kepler Space Telescope has now identified 1,235 candidates for planethood, including several entire solar systems and some potentially habitable planets — a discovery that should keep ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an unprecedented image of an exoplanet outside ...

WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) – The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned-out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store for Earth billions of years from now ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...