NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis, researcher at LMU's University Observatory Munich and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, has ...

Astronomers may have discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a Sunlike star just 146 light-years away. Before you ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

The Discovery A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference: It could be colder than perpetually frozen Mars. Key Facts Scientists ...

“This is the first planet candidate with Earth-like radius and orbital properties transiting a Sun-like star bright enough ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

Now, using the world's largest radio telescope project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA ), ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the department of Earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester ...