A planet that may exist, and may be habitable or may be frozen, has been discovered on an Earth-like orbit around a star 146 light-years away ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements — and could prove useful in catalysts ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

The first false-color image from ESA's newly operational Biomass satellite shows off a unique perspective of the rainforests, ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

With satellites and space junk increasingly cluttering our planet’s low Earth orbit, a team of scientists warn that this ...

Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable new planet which is estimated to be 6 percent larger than Earth. Named HD 137010 b, the planet is located about 146 light-away from Earth ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

Hidden mega-structures deep inside Earth may have been quietly steering our planet’s magnetic field—and rewriting what we ...