NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...
When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...
A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.
Auroras are not just on Earth. NASA has detected glowing northern and southern lights on Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and other ...
A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...
"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...
Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some exoplanets, like the one shown in this illustration, may have atmospheres that could make them potentially suitable for life.
Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...