NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

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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 ...

New research casts doubt on the prospects for a habitable, active environment beneath the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

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 ...

From this, the team deduces that the new planet, if fully confirmed, is similar to Saturn or Jupiter in size and is in the habitable zone of the star, where its surface temperature is estimated as 225 ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for Einstein's general relativity may rewrite that rule. When you purchase ...