A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list for ...

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

HD 20794 d is expected to be a focal point for upcoming projects like the Extremely Large Telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, and the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). These ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien astronomers could also be scanning Earth.

We might take it for granted that Earth is habitable year-round. Researchers have discovered an Earth-like planet with such an eccentric orbit that it swoops in and out of its habitable zone ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby Sun-like star. The planet was originally detected two years ago by Oxford University ...

This “super-Earth,” dubbed HD 20794 d, boasts a mass six times that of our planet and resides within the star’s “habitable zone.” The zone represents the optimal distance from a star ...

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...