An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of exoplanet HD 20794 d, which potentially could support life ...

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HD 20794 d, a planet with six times Earth's mass, orbits a sun-like star 20 light years away. Its position within the habitable zone suggests conditions that could allow liquid water to exist.

The planet was originally identified two years earlier by Oxford University scientist Dr Michael Cretignier. The new findings ...

NASA's Pandora mission, launching in fall 2025, will study the atmospheres of over 20 exoplanets, focusing on clouds, hazes, ...

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

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the ...

If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology comparable to ours, would they be able to detect Earth?

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...

SETI scientists suggest that extraterrestrial civilizations could detect Earth through 'technosignatures' like planetary ...