New research on meteorites may finally hold the answers to why Earth and Mars suffer from a mysterious absence of specific ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

Earth, HD 20794 d, orbiting a nearby sun-like star, offering a promising lead in the search for life beyond our planet.

HD 20794 d, with a mass six times that of Earth, orbits a star similar to our sun. The planet’s location within the habitable ...

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...

The planet was originally identified two years earlier by Oxford University scientist Dr Michael Cretignier. The new findings ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.