Astronomers have now confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets orbiting distant stars, marking a significant milestone in humanity’s ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

The planet is part of a planetary system about 40 light-years away from Earth called TRAPPIST-1, which five Belgian astronomers discovered in 2016 and named after their favorite beer.

NASA scientists announced Monday that they had found the first Earth-sized, potentially habitable planet. The planet, currently known as TOI 700 d, is about 100 light years away. It is orbiting a star ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

Charleston, SC, July 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a world facing imminent collapse, Earth has been given a dismal survivability rating of 2.5 by the Earth Habitability Science Division. Humanity, ...

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of scientists from the Universities of Montreal, ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Scientists have discovered fresh signs that Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, could potentially house alien life deep within its ...