The first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet.

An artist’s impression of the rocky exoplanet Kepler-186f, which is the first known Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water ...

An artist’s rendition of Kepler-186f. Exoplanet science quickly demonstrated after Alexander Wolszczan discovered the first planet outside ... way up and down the surface. Earth’s tilt is ...

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The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...

Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...

Astronomers have detected molecules on exoplanet K2-18b that may have been produced by simple organisms, claiming it's the ...

If one of these missions were to discover life on an exoplanet, i.e., a planet outside of our solar system, this would be a sensational finding with implications far beyond science and would ...

On planets orbiting close to their respective suns, surface water evaporates into space. Planets in the box have the right atmospheric pressure and the right temperature to keep surface water in a ...