When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

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.

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An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS spectrograph installed on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

But unlike Jupiter, Venus does have phases, going from not illuminated at all (when it is between the Earth and the Sun) to ...