Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

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 thing is, ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Astronomers have identified a nearby “super-Earth” that sits in the temperate zone of its star, instantly vaulting it into the short list of worlds that might be able to support life. The planet, ...

Many stars have planets orbiting them. Several bright stars near Earth have confirmed planets, some potentially large gas giants. Some of these planets orbit their stars at distances similar to ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

A NASA mission has spotted an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting a small star about 100 light-years away. The planet, named TOI 700 e, is likely rocky and 95% the size of our world. The celestial body is ...

NASA has identified a new super-Earth, called Ross 508 b, orbiting a small red dwarf star just 37 light-years from Earth. The discovery, made using the Subaru Telescope, marks the first detection by a ...

How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as ...

At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...