The search for life beyond Earth has marked a new discovery — evidence of an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet beyond our Solar System with modelling suggesting it may be a water world.

Experts from Harvard University have discovered a 'super-Earth' 48-light years away that may have the right conditions for ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star as part of the Next ...

Astronomers have revised the mass of nearby exoplanet GJ 3378 b, recasting it as a rocky super‑Earth in the habitable zone ...

Astronomers have identified a clue hidden in the light of certain stars that's already led them to discover seven new alien planets, with more expected to come. To be clear, these alien planets likely ...