The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

Astronomers find a potentially habitable exoplanet right in Earth's galactic backyard Just 31 light-years away from Earth, Wolf 1069b is among the nearest and most likely to be habitable exoplanets ...

Earth" that is located about 154 light-years away and is nearly twice as big and four times as massive as our planet.

So when scientists have imagined the requirements for a habitable exoplanet, having liquid water available is at the top of the list. This is what gives us the idea of the “habitable zone.” ...

When the search for habitable exoplanets requires a 1,000 times more stable telescope than James Webb Space Telescope, even ...

NASA’s planet-hunting telescope discovered an exoplanet in the habitable zone of a nearby star. It’s one of four known planets about 100 light-years away.

A team of astronomers have found a potentially habitable exoplanet about 40 light-years away in the constellation Pisces. Exoplanet Gliese 12 b is slightly smaller than Earth–about the size of ...

NASA announced the discovery of a planet 40 light years from Earth that orbits every 12.8 days and is possibly even habitable. Gliese 12 b is a "super Earth exoplanet" that is nearly the same size ...

Ways to strip an exoplanet's atmosphere. Trappist-1e is roughly Earth-sized, yet has around 0.7 times the mass of our planet. It is the fourth planet from its star, orbiting at just 0.028 times ...

The James Webb Space Telescope investigated a giant planet, K2-18b, that could be an ocean world, according to NASA. The exoplanet lies 120 light-years away from Earth.

Scientists say they may have discovered an exoplanet capable of supporting life. The planet, a super-Earth named HD 20794 d, is located just 20 light-years away.

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets now in astronomers’ catalogs, the most intriguing yet might be one confirmed last week, a potentially habitable world of fire and ice twirling around a nearby ...