Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

Astronomers have officially confirmed the existence of HD 20794 d, a super-Earth located just 20 light-years away, with ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

It was just a rock, but when Timothy Lyons picked it up, he knew the Earth had stories to tell, and he wanted to find out ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

Earth" planet that may have conditions suitable for life, according to the University of Oxford. The exoplanet—a planet ...

Well, we could be closer to discovering whether there really is alien life out there after researchers discovered a new ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...

Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists ...

TESS is scanning nearly the whole sky, with the goal of identifying about 50 exoplanets with rocky surfaces like Earth’s that could be investigated by more powerful telescopes coming on line ...