Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, only a select few show promise. Here we look at some of the most habitable exoplanets ever discovered ranked through their similarity to Earth. The result ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 ...

Of all the exoplanets ever discovered, just a handful have been found in their star's "Goldilocks" zone. Most planets beyond Earth host conditions that are incompatible with life as we know it ...

offering a new explanation for the origin of Earth's water. These results open up prospects for research in geology and materials science. They could also shed light on the composition of exoplanets ...

The exoplanet ' WASP-121b,' located about 880 light years away from Earth, is known as a sci-fi planet, with a shape closer to a rugby ball rather than a sphere, and the possibility of an ...

They’re primarily produced on Earth by bacteria, marine algae, fungi, and some plants. One key aspect of searching for methyl halides is that exoplanets resembling Earth are too small and dim to be ...

A black hole simulation. © Ute Kraus, Physics education group Kraus, Universität Hildesheim, Space Time Travel, (background image of the milky way: Axel Mellinger ...

Exoplanets in the Goldilocks zone in 2017 In February 2017 astronomers announced they had spotted a star system with planets that could support life just 39 light years away. Seven Earth-like ...