Researchers believe super-Earths orbiting long-lived orange dwarf stars may offer better conditions for life than Earth.

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...

As global temperatures rise, the ecology of Antarctica is already changing, but Earth's climate would have to change ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

In a statement Thursday, astrophysicist Amri Wandel of Hebrew University in Jerusalem said his research challenges the traditional concept of the "habitable zone," the narrow orbital range around a ...

Finding new worlds out there is pretty exciting, right? Scientists are getting really good at spotting planets around other ...

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Researchers have discovered that chemical reactions in underwater hydrothermal vents could have produced the necessary ...