New Earth-sized exoplanet found nearby might be ‘comfy’ enough for life
Who knows -- this might make a great second home.
Who knows -- this might make a great second home.
A ninth planet 10 times bigger than Earth might be lurking far away within the solar system.
This could be a game changer.
It's the 'blackest' planet we've found.
It's the best candidate for an alien moon we've encountered so far.
An extraordinarily inflated planet could prove very lucrative in our quest to find other habitable planets.
What a great day for science!
It's press only, but NASA made sure everyone can follow the talks and even get a question in.
The search for extraterrestrial life is about to get some new recruits -- us.
One group from Lund University in Sweden says Planet 9 or Planet X, as it's sometimes called, might actually be ...
There is only one clear set of official criteria by which we class or not a cosmic body as a ...
Using three state of the art ground-based telescopes, a team of astronomers has identified three super-Earth exoplanets that are seven ...
Just after NASA researchers made the bold claim that they will find alien life in less than 20 years, the ...
According to Danish and Australian researchers, there are billions of the stars in the Milky Way located in the "habitable ...
The ever resourceful Kepler missions just reported its most interesting find to date: not one, but five planets smaller than ...
Nibiru followers might have cause to rejoice, as Spanish astronomers report a novel hypothesis that suggests two Earth-sized planets might ...
Since it was first launched in 2009, the $600 Kepler mission has discovered more than 1,000 alien worlds. Arguably it's ...
Space-based telescopes have been used to spot planets (even Earth-like planets) for years now, but this is the first time ...
A group from the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Bordeaux, France, and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has made a ...
Astronomers have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a new exoplanet - a planet from outside our solar system ...
Artist's rendition of Kepler-186f - just 10% larger than Earth. Remember a few days ago, when I was telling you ...
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Until just a few decades ago, there wasn't any proof that there were any planets beyond those ...
The bright star Beta Pictoris is hidden behind a mask in the center of the images; a few scattered starlight ...
Artist impression of KOI-314c. Credit: C. Pulliam & D. Aguilar (CfA) A team of astronomers recently discovered a new exoplanet ...
In the past two decades alone, some 900 exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - have been identified, with ...
Hot-Jupiter exoplanet illustration. (c) NASA Using the Hubble telescope, astronomers have identified faint signals of water in the atmosphere of ...
Illustration of a exoplanet transiting its parent star in the observational plane. (C) scienceoffice.org Although the Kepler Space Telescope itself ...
Dire news came today. Astronomers, and people dreaming of life beyond our solar system alike all over the world, are ...
Artist impression of Kepler-76b orbiting around its parent star. The planet was discovered after relativistic effects were observed. The star ...
An artist's impression of a sunrise on Kepler 62f. (c) American Association for the Advancement of Science The ever resourceful ...
Researchers have for the first time conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant planetary system with a new telescope imaging ...
Though hundreds of potentially life harboring exoplanets have been discovered thus far, until the James Webb Space Telescope becomes operational, ...
After researchers surveyed data from the Kepler mission tasked with identifying possibly habitable planets outside our solar system they found ...
EPOXI mission image shows what an Earth-like exoplanet might look like from afar. (c) NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD/GSFC The Kepler mission has proven ...
Of the hundreds of exoplanets discovered thus far, many of them are classed as super-Earths, planets with a mass up ...
Astronomers have used a novel planet hunter instrument to detect a new possible life supporting, Earth-like exoplanet. In fact the ...
The European Southern Observatory has captured and analyzed an image of the center of our galaxy which, if printed at ...
The European Space Agency has officially announced that it will launch a new space telescope tasked with the primary objective ...
Artist impression of the Kepler-30 solar system, complete with its planets' orbits. (c) Cristina Sanchis Ojeda Researchers at MIT, the ...
Summer is set to kick-off with a series of beautiful Venus related events, from an astronomical point of view at ...
Our solar system is special for two reasons: the first one, obviously - is us. Our solar system is the ...
One of the most outstanding dreams astronomers and other scientists hope to accomplish is to someday encounter proof that extraterestrial ...
The hunt for the second Earth, a similar life-bearing paradise like our own, rages on, and while no candidate came ...
The hunt for finding another Earth is making progress every day, as scientists are constantly adding new viable candidates to ...
In our very own Milky Way galaxy alone, astronomers estimate there are between 200 billion and 400 billion stars. Of ...
This news couldn't have come any sooner. It was just last week that we reported how gamers made a monumental ...
Artist impression of HD 85512b, a viable candidate for the first Earth-like planet to be discovered. (c) Kornmesser/Eso The HARPS ...
There are few more dazzling sights in the world than that of the great Norther Lights, and in a exercise ...