Exoplanet hunting is evolving from a science searching for exotic new worlds into one that is attempting to better understand these planets and to characterize them. Astrobiologists are especially ...

Located in the Lyra constellation, the Super Earth planet completes an orbit of its nearby star every 207.5 days SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s ...

Earth may be special because of its water, but not in the way you may think. A new study published in The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that we may actually have less of ...

Whether or not Earthlings are alone in the universe is a matter that has occupied the greatest of minds for centuries. Now, a sensational discovery by Chinese scientists offers a promising clue that ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

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 ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool. Searching for Earth-like planets – and Earth-like life – is the ultimate ...