On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, its mission was clear: to explore the stars and uncover distant ...

MORE: NASA detects new planet with temperatures that suggest habitable conditions The Cat's Paw Nebula, also known as NGC 6334, is located in the constellation Scorpius about 4,000 light-years away.

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A discovery ...

Telescopes allow scientists to analyze starlight passing through distant planets’ atmospheres, revealing clues about their ...

New research might finally help us understand what happened to the water on Mars and rewrite everything we know about the Red ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

An analysis led by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was ...

Astronomers have found a new exoplanet named TOI-1846 b. This planet is nearly twice the size of Earth. It may contain a lot ...

Earth" that is located about 154 light-years away and is nearly twice as big and four times as massive as our planet.