Scientists work to define a “habitable zone,” which means that if it’s too close to a star, the water heats and evaporates, and too far, it freezes. Also, the atmospheric conditions need to be just ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn ...

Why is Venus so different? Several scientific instruments are to explore our neighboring planet. ESA has now awarded the ...

Sometimes, the best innovative ideas come from synthesizing two previous ones. We've reported before on the idea of having a ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

We carried out four surveys regarding the likely existence of basic, complex and intelligent extraterrestrial life ...

The planet, known as HD 20794d, gets farther out from its star than Mars is from the sun and, on the other end of its orbit, ...

Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the European Space Agency to build the EnVision spacecraft that will unveil Venus’ deepest mysteries •           As prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...