Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

An international team of researchers has identified a strong candidate for a nearby, potentially rocky exoplanet orbiting ...

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

Earth, called Ross 508 b, orbiting a small red dwarf star just 37 light-years from Earth. The discovery, made using the Subaru Telescope, marks the first detection by a new observational instrument ...

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

University of California, Irvine astronomers have identified an exoplanet located in a star's habitable zone, where ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away that could harbor liquid water. Early data suggests hints of ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay ...

Scientists are developing PoET, a new EU-funded solar telescope, to overcome stellar noise hindering the search for ...

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