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 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 ...

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 ...

Alien life could be thriving in a part of the universe we had originally ruled out according to new research by astronomers at Cornell University. A red giant star. When looking for places where alien ...

Some exoplanets, like the one shown in this illustration, may have atmospheres that could make them potentially suitable for life. NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP When astronomers search for planets that ...

Tau Ceti - the closest star of a type similar to our own Sun - has been found to have at least five planets orbiting it. Scientists say one of those planets sits neatly in the "goldilocks" habitable ...