An international team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have spotted ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA's now-retired space telescope Kepler. It found that larger planets with non-circular orbits are more ...

Scientists using a NASA space telescope have discovered a tantalizing world. It's about the size of Earth, sits remarkably close to our solar system, and could be comfortable for life as we know it.

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

It’s especially puzzling since Venus is a terrestrial world much like Earth, so much so that it’s considered to be our planet ...

The exoplanet Gliese 12 b is tantalizingly close and moderately warm, situated just 40 light-years away around a red dwarf star. The potentially habitable planet could be a good place to search for ...

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That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.