Earth. The breakthrough boosts the search for life-supporting planets. "Are we alone?" This enduring question has fascinated ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

Scientists using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered an exoplanet, which NASA defines as “any ...

A newly discovered exoplanet, located just 35 light-years from Earth, could be one of the most promising places to search for ...

Astronomers have confirmed a fifth planet orbiting the nearby red dwarf L9859, which lies in the star's habitable zone. The newly detected world, L9859f, is a super-Earth with a minimum mass of 2.8 ...

The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, ...

More A huge "super-Earth" with an extreme climate that results in it being habitable for only part of its orbit has been discovered orbiting a star 2,472 light years away. And the most remarkable ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four ...

The newly discovered L 98-59 f is a super-Earth, with a minimum mass 2.8 times that of our planet. It follows a nearly circular 23-day orbit around its star, receiving about the same amount of stellar ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new super-Earth exoplanet that orbits a nearby M dwarf star. The newfound alien ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...