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 at the University of Warwick say they have been part of an international team to discover a new new habitable ...
Scientists have discovered a new Earth-sized planet only 40 light years away which could potentially support human life. The ...
Astronomers have made the rare and tantalizing discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet 40 light-years away that may be just a ...
NASA: A super Earth exoplanet named 'Gliese 12 b', between the sizes of Earth and Venus, is only 40 light-years away. This ...
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 ...