Astronomers have long searched for planets like ours, and now, a new discovery brings that dream a little closer to reality.

Astronomers have discovered GJ 251 c, a rocky super-Earth just 20 light-years away, one of the most promising nearby worlds ...

Research shows Jupiter’s strong gravitational pull may have protected Earth by keeping its orbit steady and preventing it from drifting toward the Sun.

If alien life exists on the newly discovered JG 251 c, we could know about it in the next 10 years.

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

The expansiveness of the universe could make interstellar communication difficult, even for the most advanced civilizations.

An international team of researches has announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet (designated GJ 251 c) situated in ...

It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named GJ 251c with a minimum mass about 3.84 times that of our own planet. The ...

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

University of California, Irvine. An international team of researchers has identified a strong candidate for a nearby, potentially rocky exoplanet orbiting within its star’s temperate zone. The world, ...

Earth' orbiting within its star's habitable zone, just 20 light-years from Earth, could host extraterrestrial life.