Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life. An ...

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning jewel—a planet around a tiny red dwarf star that may have the right conditions to ...

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:rocket: Could aliens be hiding on a frozen twin of Earth? NASA has just discovered a rocky exoplanet that’s remarkably similar to our home planet — and it’s shaking up the search for alien life.

It's one of the biggest unanswered questions in science: are there aliens out there, and if so, where are they hiding? Now, a discovery by NASA has raised the tantalising possibility that we're not ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

An international team of researches has announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet (designated GJ 251 c) situated in its host star’s habitable zone less than 20 light-years from our own. What ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

Astronomers have spotted more than 100 new potential alien planets, including one in the fourth-closest star system to the sun, a new study reports. This haul of newfound possible exoplanets, which ...

The Penn State-led Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF) provides the highest precision measurements to date of infrared signals from nearby stars. Pictured: The HPF instrument during installation in its ...