The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.
A distant star has just been caught in the act of destroying one of its own worlds, a violent finale astronomers have long ...
Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...
Astronomers have announced the discovery of what appears to be an "ice cold Earth," a chilly but potentially habitable rocky world similar to our own located less than 150 light-years away. As ...
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.