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

Recent research from Stanford University has revealed a groundbreaking finding about rocky exoplanets that seem inhospitable due to their volcanic activity. Many of these planets, which display ...

New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

There has long been speculation about the potential habitability of water-abundant "Super-Earths." The post Waterful Worlds: More planets able to sustain life than thought appeared first on Talker.

A new analysis of exoplanets has shown interstellar contamination from nearby stars could change where to search for ...

f l = the fraction of planets that could support life that actually develop life at some point. f i = the fraction of planets with life that go on to develop intelligent life (civilizations).

A planet like this could exist for 4 billion years with an intact atmosphere — pretty good chances for hosting life. “If you are lucky, yes, an exoplanet like this could support life,” Wolk ...

A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

"We would have loved to find that Venus was once a planet much closer to our own, so it’s kind of sad in a way to find out that it wasn’t." When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The results could help astronomers narrow their focus when searching for planets that can support life in orbit around other stars in the galaxy. "If Venus was habitable in the past, ...