According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

there is the potential for life as they say. “It is among the closest Earth analogues we know about and given its peculiar orbit,” Cretignier said. An artist’s impression of the new planet ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings ...

Scientists have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ planet six times larger than our own which may have conditions suitable for life.

Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may have conditions suitable for life, according to the University of ...

Scientists appear to be one step closer in their mission to finding life outside Earth - after finding ... of the notion of a planet’s habitability. If there is water on HD 20794 d, it would ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to ... lakebeds on Earth. More:High resolution photos of ...

A super-Earth planet ... mass of the planet. It's the wobbling star that has betrayed the existence of HD 20794d — astronomers have not directly observed HD 20794d, nor taken a picture of ...

A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts ... its proximity with us means there is hope for future space missions ...

it lies just 19.7 light-years away from Earth, raising the "tantalising possibility" of being able to photograph it and, of course, "any aliens lurking there". An exoplanet is a planet outside our ...