What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

Updated models suggest only 60,000 to 250,000 Earth-like habitats may exist in the Galaxy, with far fewer capable of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Researchers have detected four small exoplanets orbiting ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

This artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. Astronomers have estimated that there are tens of billions of such rocky worlds orbiting faint red dwarf stars in the ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...

Researchers have developed a new technology that can shape the spectrum of light emitted from a laser frequency comb across the visible and near-infrared wavelengths with more precision than ...

In the first for the exoplanetary community, scientists have announced four new small Earth-like planets around Barnard's Star, just six light-years from our world. The four planets are all smaller ...

A rare image reveals a giant planet clinging to two stars, helping scientists understand how planets survive in chaotic star ...