Trappist-1, a star system 40 light-years away, holds seven Earth-sized planets—three in the habitable zone—that ignite our imagination about life beyond the solar system. But how long would it take to ...

Dubbed HD 137010 b, the planet might fall just within the outer edges of its star's 'habitable zone', meaning there could be liquid water on its surface and a suitable atmosphere for life.

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Life beyond Earth may exist in far stranger places than scientists once thought, a new study suggests. January, 22. (photo credit: ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

EXPERTS have spotted a potentially habitable new planet that might be “remarkably similar to Earth”. But there is one chilly catch – scientists believe temperatures may below ...

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

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

Space experts have identified a potentially habitable new planet in the solar system, located around 150 light-years away. Find out more here.

Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients for life may exist long before planets are formed.

Now, a discovery by NASA has raised the tantalising possibility that we're not alone after all. The US space agency has ...

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