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 ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

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 ...

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 ...

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the ...