The planet orbits a faint red dwarf star and sits in its habitable zone, where liquid water could exist if an atmosphere is ...

Astronomers have identified GJ 251 c, a super-Earth exoplanet just 18 light-years away, orbiting within its star's habitable ...

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

No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a ...

An international team of researches has announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet (designated GJ 251 c) situated in ...

Backed by a two-year, $1 million grant from the federal government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the team is ...

The world, dubbed GJ 251 c, sits 19.6 light-years from Earth and appears to be almost four times our planet’s mass — a “super ...

The ocean's smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth's thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon.

Earth' orbiting within its star's habitable zone, just 20 light-years from Earth, could host extraterrestrial life.

While researchers say they've found a potentially habitable planet, it'll take a new generation of telescopes to figure out ...

Microbes high in Earth’s stratosphere produce pigments to protect them from UV light – so similar molecules could be ...

The view of Earth from space is famously familiar—bright blue ocean, swirling gyres of white clouds, touches of terrestrial ...