A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Four Earth-like planets discovered orbiting Barnard's star Barnard's Star is a red dwarf and our closest single star to Earth ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

(CNN)-- Since the time of Nicolaus Copernicus five centuries ago, people have wondered whether there are other planets like Earth in the universe. Today scientists are closer than ever to an ...

ALIEN life could be hiding away on the vast ocean of a nearby moon. Scientists say there’s a chance that a “small population” ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by dynamic interactions with its companion. An international team of researchers ...

These other stars, invisible to the naked eye ... astronomers had ruled out red dwarfs as places to look for Earth-like planets because they believed that being tidally locked would make them ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent study exploring what we can learn about life in the universe -- even if we ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

A new study found dinosaurs were thriving on Earth before asteroid hit, challenging idea they were already in decline before ...