"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

Exoplanet science is shifting from finding any detectable exoplanets we can to searching for those in their stars' habitable ...

Based on the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique for the first time, the super-Earth, Kepler-725c, with 10 times the ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

"Best of all," added the Mail, it lies just 19.7 light-years away from Earth, raising the "tantalising ... "Having a planet in the habitable zone is not sufficient at all to have life on it ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

For the first time, an international collaboration led by Chinese researchers with the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has adopted the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique ...

Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we’ve discovered, a significant number are in the apparent habitable zones of their stars.