NASA’s Kepler data reveals HD 137010 b, a cold, Earth-sized candidate. Though freezing cold, it offers valuable insights into planetary formation and life’s potential elsewhere.

A unique characteristic of the candidate planet HD 137010b is its ice-cold temperature.

The curious minds at What If reveal NASA signs of ancient life on Mars, exploring fossils, chemical evidence, and planetary ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

As part of Juno’s extended mission, the spacecraft is making close encounters of Jupiter’s large Galilean moons after having ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Life as we know it needs liquid water. For liquid water to exist on a given planet, it has to lie in a specific region called ...

The Earth-size planet HD 137010 b has a ‘50% chance of residing in the habitable zone’ of its sun-like star, scientists say ...