UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

Earth’ planet that may be suitable for life - The exoplanet, which has been named HD 20794 d, orbits in the ‘habitable zone’ ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new planet which is six times as large as the Earth and could host alien life.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

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 samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the ... increasing the odds life could have formed on other planets and moons, according to a NASA statement. In Graphics: How Bennu ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...