What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.

6 billion years old and home to more than 100 billion stars. This reality suggests there is likely a mind-boggling number of ...

We’ve learned that Earth-sized planets aren’t alone out there. Thanks to missions like NASA’s Kepler and TESS telescopes, we’ve spotted dozens of rocky worlds ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...

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Learn about HD 137010 b, a cold Earth‑sized planet candidate that sits near the outer edge of its star’s habitable zone.

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

SIGNS of an alien planet that’s about the same size as Earth have been picked by up a Nasa telescope. Scientists say it might ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.