Astronomers have discovered a large Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star that could be home to alien life. The exoplanet ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

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

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

Earth,” dubbed HD 20794 d, boasts a mass six times that of our planet and resides within the star’s “habitable zone.” The ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...