The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of what appears to be an "ice cold Earth," a chilly but potentially habitable rocky ...

Astronomers have identified a potentially habitable, Earth-size planet located about 146 light-years from our solar system, ...

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...

V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that connection measurable. Future transit-timing and atmospheric observations ...

HD 137010 b, a new Earth-like planet found 146 light-years away, may be habitable. Discovered by NASA Kepler data, further ...

A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost ...

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.

Look west just after sunset from this weekend for a chance to see some of six planets, though the best views will be had ...

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all in the evening sky, but you’ll need binoculars, timing, and a ...