Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

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.

A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Earth is getting darker; the planet itself, when viewed from space, appears darker than it did in the past. The upper half actually appears to be getting darker than the bottom ...

A team of researchers at the University of Southern Queensland has discovered a potentially habitable planet 150 light-years away near the outer edge of the habitable zone.

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

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

While we have sent probes billions of kilometers into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own ...