A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on January 27, 2026, revealing a promising yet cold candidate: HD 137010 b. Located ...

NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of what appears to be an "ice cold Earth," a chilly but potentially habitable rocky world similar to our own located less than 150 light-years away. As ...

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

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

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Illustration of the Earth-like exoplanet Proxima Centauri b orbiting the star Proxima ...

“This is the first planet candidate with Earth-like radius and orbital properties transiting a Sun-like star bright enough ...

NASA's planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, has just discovered Kepler-452b, a planet that scientists are calling "Earth 2.0." Scientists said in a press conference Thursday that they ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for signs of an atmosphere—and potentially life-supporting conditions. Early James ...