Scientists believe the exoplanet HD 20794 d, six times the mass of Earth, could harbour liquid water on its surface.

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest ...

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

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HD 20794 d is expected to be a focal point for upcoming projects like the Extremely Large Telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, and the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). These ...

Measuring the atmosphere of a planet passing its host star can be tricky ... can now begin the countdown to discovering more about exoplanets — including potentially habitable ones — in our solar ...

When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...