The president’s proposed budget includes major cuts to NASA — among them, the elimination of funding for the Nancy Grace ...

The range of distance from a star that will allow water to remain a liquid is called the habitable zone. D: So we Earthlings are lucky, I guess, that we're just the right distance aw ...

"It tells us that the planet was habitable and that the models for habitability are correct," said the study's lead author, Ben Tutolo, associate professor with the Department of Earth, Energy and ...

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Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable. By Carl Zimmer The search for life beyond Earth has led ...

Often, "Earth-like" worlds — Earth-like in the sense that they have a similar mass to our planet and reside in their star's habitable zone — are found by chance, often in huge surveys that ...

"It tells us that the planet was habitable and that the models for habitability are correct," said the study's lead author, Ben Tutolo, associate professor with the Department of Earth, Energy and ...

“It’s the first time humanity has seen potential biosignatures on a habitable planet,” the professor explained. He added that the discovery was “as big as it gets” for scientist ...