'Habitable Zone' for Alien Planets, and Possibly Life, Redefined A new definition of the habitable zone around planets, denoting where liquid water could exist, shifts Earth toward the very edge of ...

Earth may be the only planet in the universe that we know to support life. However, astronomers have identified several alien exoplanets that could have even better environments, making them ...

Trace elements in stars may influence the evolution of habitable zones around them where life as we know it might dwell, scientists now find. Stars are made nearly entirely from hydrogen and helium ...

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found two planets similar in size to Earth and within the habitable zone of star TOI 700 . We might temper our excitement though, as this is not ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

The most important aspect of this is that, with a possible atmosphere and liquid water, this planet lies within the habitable ...

New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the “habitable zone”, the region around a star where ...

Alien life could be thriving in a part of the universe we had originally ruled out according to new research by astronomers at Cornell University. A red giant star. When looking for places where alien ...

For the first time, an Earth-sized planet has been found in the habitable zone of a star — the right distance away to host liquid water and possibly life. "This one is the most Earth-like so far," ...

Tau Ceti - the closest star of a type similar to our own Sun - has been found to have at least five planets orbiting it. Scientists say one of those planets sits neatly in the "goldilocks" habitable ...

The MIT prof is one of the leading authorities on exoplanets. She doesn't believe aliens have visited earth, but she's certain there's life out there somewhere, possibly as close as Mars You can save ...

WASHINGTON — An Earth-sized planet in its star's habitable zone has been discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope. NASA says the newly found exoplanet is the closest to Earth in size and ...