Astronomers have identified a super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star just 20 light-years away, making it one of the closest and most promising candidates for studying Earth-like atmospheres. The planet, ...

Its unique location means that the super-Earth could possibly be habitable, meaning it could hold evidence of alien life. The planet is known as TOI-0715 b, and it’s about one and a half times ...

Discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft between 2009 and 2012, Kepler-442b is a super-Earth, meaning it’s larger than Earth ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

"Best of all," added the Mail, it lies just 19.7 light-years away from Earth, raising the "tantalising ... a prerequisite for life. "Having a planet in the habitable zone is not sufficient at ...

So far, at least, the only one which we know for certain to be habitable is Earth – but that doesn’t mean that other life-bearing planets can’t be out there. The search for these other ...

What’s even more exciting is that this exoplanet is only 31 light-years away from Earth. Finding a habitable planet has been the goal for many astronomers over the years, and while scientists ...