The Earth-size planet HD 137010 b has a ‘50% chance of residing in the habitable zone’ of its sun-like star, scientists say ...

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

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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration depicts what the surface of one of the exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star may look like. The other three planets ...

Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than the sun in both size and mass. TOI-6894, located far away from Earth, is one of them. Astronomers previously ...

Thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope, NASA has announced the discovery of the first near-Earth size planet in the so-called habitable zone around another star 1,400 light-years from Earth, in the ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...