Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

It was, of course, a great joy for me when we could confirm the planet’s existence,” said Dr. Cretignier. “It was also a ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

UC Irvine astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would ...

The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

A team of international researchers has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet that may have the right conditions ...