Our solar system may be the odd one out. Across the Milky Way, astronomers keep finding super-Earths, planets larger than our own but smaller than Neptune, in staggering numbers. They are the galaxy’s ...

We’ve learned that Earth-sized planets aren’t alone out there. Thanks to missions like NASA’s Kepler and TESS telescopes, we’ve spotted dozens of rocky worlds ...

With Area 51 ruled out by President Obama, where might aliens really be hiding? Scientists have now revealed the best ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has detected long-chain organic molecules, alkanes, in an ancient Martian lake bed. Scientists argue these findings are difficult to explain through non-biological processes ...

On a research trip up to a cemetery in Eldora, Amy Davis and Rikki Diana Pauley saw something strange in the night sky. “She notices it first, and then it blinked,” Davis said. “Almost ...

A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere, though, ...

Learn about HD 137010 b, a cold Earth‑sized planet candidate that sits near the outer edge of its star’s habitable zone.

The candidate is coined HD 137010 b. It would orbit a K-type dwarf star approximately 146 light-years from Earth. The evidence comes from a single transit pattern seen in K2 data from 2017: the star ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

Lead author Dr Craig Walton, of ETH Zurich, told the Daily Mail: 'You could feasibly have a planet that looks great with ...