Astronomers have discovered HD 20794 d, a potential Earth-like exoplanet just 20 light-years away. With a habitable zone ...

Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth—a planet larger than Earth but smaller than ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Astronomers have detected a relatively close exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of its star, where temperatures are ...