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 ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...

Scientists in China have discovered a new Super-Earth, named Kepler-725c, located in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star about 2,400 light-years from Earth. This exciting find adds new weight to the ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search for life beyond our solar system. The discovery of the exoplanet orbiting in ...

Could alien life be hiding just 120 light-years away? That’s the question raised by a new study led by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. Published on ...

A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever to be imaged directly. A glimpse of a planet in its star’s habitable zone — ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien ...

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 ...