Super-Earth K2-3d sits just 150 million light years away from Earth, and is one of the most likely planets we know of to host alien life. The large planet seems to have all of the right ingredients ...

Two of the seven Earth-sized rocky planets revolving around Trappist-1 red dwarf star may cling on to their atmospheres, which is a crucial condition to host alien life, a new study has suggested.

EARTH is the only planet we know that blooms with life – but that may soon change. According to a new study, distant planets may may not just host life, but even more life than exists on our own ...

A newly-discovered alien world which looks unsettlingly like Earth could be a "prime candidate" for hosting life, scientists have said. And while it might not be rocky like our own world, scientists ...

Astronomers from the Max-Planck Institute used different methods of observation to discover the alien world orbiting a nearby red dwarf dwarf star 26 light years away. Gliese 486b is the only planet ...

Star-gazers find ten rocky planets that orbit in the sweet spot near their suns for liquid water to pool on the surface NASA scientists have discovered ten “Earth-like” planets that could be capable ...

16:43, Thu, Jul 12, 2018 Updated: 16:46, Thu, Jul 12, 2018 Scientists have identified Ross 128b, 11 lightyears away, as a potentially habitable planet as it is the right temperature to hold liquid ...

An artist’s illustration of the exoplanet TOI-1452 b, which may be a water world, covered entirely by a deep ocean (Benoit Gougeon, Université de Montréal) New research looking into the properties of ...

Exomoons or extrasolar moon are the natural satellites, which much like our own Moon, orbit larger bodies throughout the cosmos. Astronomers have so far discovered nearly 4,000 exoplanets outside of ...

EARTH is the only planet we know that blooms with life – but that may soon change. According to a new study, distant planets may may not just host life, but even more life than exists on our own ...