University of California, Irvine Generally, scientists agree that the chances of our planet being the only one in the ...

The most important aspect of this is that, with a possible atmosphere and liquid water, this planet lies within the habitable ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for signs of an atmosphere—and potentially life-supporting conditions. Early James ...

NASA recently announced the discovery of a new, Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star called TOI-700. We are two of the astronomers who led the discovery of this planet, called TOI ...

Two teams of scientists have discovered a theoretically habitable planet, smaller than Earth but bigger than Venus, orbiting a small star about 40 light-years away. The exoplanet, named Gliese 12b, ...

Researchers studied the orbits of 150 planets in the Milky Way and found that many of them were at the right temperature to have life. For generations, scientists have known that the Milky Way ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

Across the Milky Way and beyond, planetary systems appear to fall into a few recurring blueprints, and recent exoplanet ...

The TOI-700 star system is home to four planets, including two in its habitable zone that could host liquid water. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Habitable planets are those that are just the ...

There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life. That planet is Earth, as you may have guessed, and it has all the right conditions for critters to thrive on its surface. Do ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Habitable planets are those that are just the right distance from their star to have a surface temperature that could sustain liquid ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of California, Berkeley now estimate that one in five stars like the sun have planets about the size of Earth and a surface ...