Exoplanets with deep oceans and large amounts of hydrogen in the atmosphere could contain signs of life if such worlds […] ...

Leading scientists have made an exciting discovery in the depths of space that has been hailed as "invaluable" in the search for signs of life outside our solar system. A planet has been ...

Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

In a new paper published ... habitability on a planet of this nature is very unlikely, especially due to the climatic conditions, which are incompatible with human life ...

However, it is unlikely that we will find any life there. Astronomers have ... able to travel to and colonize these newly discovered planets using new forms of rocket propulsion, such as nuclear ...

Each of the planets, labeled b, c, d, and e, has a mass between 20% and 30% of Earth's, making them among the smallest yet ...

New worlds are being discovered on an almost daily ... So isn’t it more likely that life would be found on a dwarf-star planet than on a planet orbiting a much more rare sunlike star?

Scientists have discovered a new planet, Enaiposha ... Enaiposha's harsh environment renders it an unlikely prospect for life, the work done here may open the door to finding potentially habitable ...

In a paper slated for publication April 14 in Science, Currie reports the first exoplanet jointly discovered through direct imaging and precision astrometry, a new indirect method that identifies a ...

Even with the planet’s doom set to hit sometime in the future, astronomers want to learn a lot more from WASP-121b. As such, astronomers responsible for the new study plan to observe the planet ...

CAMBRIDGE -- Discovery of a new planet beyond the orbit of Neptune was reported by the Harvard observatory Thursday. The Lowell observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, made the discovery officials ...