Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 ... "Having a planet in the habitable zone is not sufficient at all to have life on ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet just twenty light years away that's residing in its star's habitable zone.

will give a talk titled "The Search for Potential Habitable Worlds in Our Galaxy" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 16 June 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Kopparapu ...

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