University of California, Irvine Generally, scientists agree that the chances of our planet being the only one in the ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

The mystery of whether TRAPPIST-1e has an atmosphere capable of hosting life continues. Discover more about it.

Frequent flares from the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 could offer new clues in the search for habitable planets beyond Earth.

Researchers studied the orbits of 150 planets in the Milky Way and found that many of them were at the right temperature to have life. For generations, scientists have known that the Milky Way ...

Updated models suggest only 60,000 to 250,000 Earth-like habitats may exist in the Galaxy, with far fewer capable of ...

NASA recently announced the discovery of a new, Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star called TOI-700. We are two of the astronomers who led the discovery of this planet, called TOI ...

There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life. That planet is Earth, as you may have guessed, and it has all the right conditions for critters to thrive on its surface. Do ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Habitable planets are those that are just the right distance from their star to have a surface temperature that could sustain liquid ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of California, Berkeley now estimate that one in five stars like the sun have planets about the size of Earth and a surface ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth. Contained within are hints about the very beginning of the solar system and how ...