A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Because this planet is relatively close to Earth and orbits a bright star, it is a perfect target for future telescopes.

ANDES stands for ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. AndES is a high-resolution instrument that can search for ...

The exoplanet HD 20794d swoops in and out of its habitable zone every few hundred days, making for an extreme climate.

We are talking about HD 20794 d – a planet belonging to the group of so-called super-Earths. It is located in a star system ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

Well, we could be closer to discovering whether there really is alien life out there after researchers discovered a new 'super-Earth' which is six times bigger than our planet and may well inhabit ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...