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

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...

Astronomers have discovered a large Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star that could be home to alien life. The exoplanet ...

Credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD 20794d ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby Sun-like star. The planet was originally ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD 20794d, gets farther out from its star than Mars is from ...

It's highly elliptical, which means as the planet orbits its star, it moves from the inner edge to just beyond the outer edge of the habitable zone every year. This raises questions about its ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.