Every now and then, space surprises us– and this time, the buzz is all about four small rocky planets found around one of our ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

In the first for the exoplanetary community, scientists have announced four new small Earth-like planets around Barnard's ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using advanced technology, these are the smallest exoplanets detected via the ...

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...

Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent ...

Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...