What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star — one of our closest stellar neighbors — ...

The quartet of planets — named b, c, d and e — are some of the smallest rocky worlds ever detected. NASA says each has a mass ...

Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using ...

Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...

Barnard’s Star is notorious among astronomers for a history of false planet detections but it appears the latest discovery – ...

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

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The national traveling exhibition explores space and astronomy, covering topics such as the search for habitable worlds.

The confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...