Now, astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable world less than 20 light-years from here, which could be ...

If there's one modern astronomical concept that has successfully permeated the mainstream media, it's the "Goldilocks zone." Not only is it associated with the search for alien life, one of the more ...

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning ...

It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named GJ 251c with a minimum mass about 3.84 times that of our own planet. The ...

Long-ago collisions between clouds of gas and dust could explain why many alien solar systems have planets with strange, highly tilted orbits — and why habitable worlds may be rare in the universe, a ...

New planet is one of the best ever hopes for seeing alien life, scientists say - Less than 20 light years away, we could soon ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...

"As a planetary system, it's as alien as it gets," said Néstor Espinoza, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. "The star is very, very small - the size of Jupiter - and ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But not everyone agrees that it signals life. An illustration shows what ...