Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

New research suggests that life could have the time and energy to arise on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking ...

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

Pollard A quartet of Earth-like worlds, each about 20% to 30% the size of our planet, circle one of our closest stellar ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) telescope will be actively looking for traces of life on Earth-like planets in other ...

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...