Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...

NASA may have just found our second Earth - a planet so similar, it could be habitable for humans. But this is just the ...

At present, the researchers have been able to narrow down K2-18b’s makeup to just two possibilities. They believe that, due to its mass and size, it is either a rocky world like Earth with a gas ...

Astronomers in Japan have published their theory of an "Earth-like planet," dubbed Planet Nine, that's hiding in plain sight just a few ... such a planet exists, this new work isn’t the ...

One of the smallest, coolest stars found to have planets of any kind—just 86 light-years from the solar system—appears to have an Earth-like volcanic world. The planet, called LP 791-18 d, is ...

A possible Earth-like planet was detected orbiting a star that is a lot like our own Sun. The planet candidate is called KOI-456.04, it’s just … ...

If the data is validated, the new super-Earth, which was dubbed "π Men c", will go down as TESS's first discovery on its two-year mission to find Earth-like exoplanets around nearby stars. Its ...

Although this new planet is advertised as Earth-like because of its relatively low mass, earthlings wouldn’t want to rent a house there any time soon. For one thing, the house would melt.

The two most Earth-like planets of the group are Kepler-438b and Kepler-442b. Both orbit red dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than our Sun. Kepler-438b circles its star every 35 days, while ...

About 22 percent of sun-like stars in our galaxy may have planets orbiting them that are about the size of Earth and bathed in similar amounts of sunlight, according to a new analysis of data from ...

But planets two to four times the size of Earth have a rocky core but are also built of lots of gas, like Neptune. The findings of Marcy's team were validated by scientists who turned to a ...