WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere - a trait considered essential for any possibility of harboring life. Well, they ...
An Earth-size planet discovered around a nearby star offers astronomers their first chance for exoplanetary geology.
Scientists have discovered a new Earth-sized planet only 40 light years away which could potentially support human life. The ...
Scientists at the University of Warwick say they have been part of an international team to discover a new new habitable ...
Astronomers have made the rare and tantalizing discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet 40 light-years away that may be just a ...
NASA: A super Earth exoplanet named 'Gliese 12 b', between the sizes of Earth and Venus, is only 40 light-years away. This ...
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting a red dwarf star, making just the second planetary system seen ...
The Discovery A planet that could resemble a smaller version of our own Neptune orbits one of two Sun-like stars that also ...
NASA’s spacecraft Magellan used cloud-penetrating radar to survey most of the planet. But back then, the relatively ...