WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere - a trait considered essential for any possibility of harboring life. Well, they ...
An Earth-size planet discovered around a nearby star offers astronomers their first chance for exoplanetary geology.
Scientists have discovered a new Earth-sized planet only 40 light years away which could potentially support human life. The ...
Scientists at the University of Warwick say they have been part of an international team to discover a new new habitable ...
Astronomers have made the rare and tantalizing discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet 40 light-years away that may be just a ...
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting a red dwarf star, making just the second planetary system seen ...
New software let scientists re-examine old radar images, providing some of the strongest evidence yet that volcanoes continue to reshape the hellish planet.
The Discovery A planet that could resemble a smaller version of our own Neptune orbits one of two Sun-like stars that also ...