A new world has just been found orbiting a Sun-like star only 20 light-years away, and it could be one of the most promising ...

According to a new study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, an exoplanet known only as Wolf 1069 b may be a habitable planet. What’s even more exciting is that this exoplanet is only 31 ...

Conditions in the early universe might have enabled rocky planets with water to form much earlier than anticipated, potentially allowing life to begin sooner too. Astrophysicists studying the ...

She said a key difference in the star/planet systems her team studied—a variation responsible for a planetary climate being habitable or not—was the rotational characteristics of the planets.