One of the most Earth-like planets located by the Kepler mission is uninhabitable after all, due to its very active star. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Astronomers on Tuesday announced the discovery of eight new potentially habitable planets beyond our solar system, including two that are the most similar to Earth of any discovered so far. First ...

The amazing Kepler Space Telescope has now catalogued over 1,000 exoplanets. Among them are eight new planets located within habitable zones, including two that astronomers say are the most Earth-like ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the most Earth-like alien planets ever discovered may not be capable of supporting life, a ...

About 470 light years away, a rocky planet about 1.12 times the size of Earth spins around a star in what’s called a habitable zone — where favorable temperatures mean liquid water could possibly ...

Prospective spacefarers can scratch Kepler-438b off their list of alien world destinations as the exoplanet has been proven to be too inhospitable to support life. In a study featured in the journal ...

New discovery is likely to be a rocky world in the ‘Goldilocks’ zone of its parent star where the temperature is just right for liquid water to flow An alien world that orbits a distant star in the ...

The most Earth-like planet could have been made uninhabitable by vast quantities of radiation.The atmosphere of the planet, Kepler-438b, is thought to have been stripped away as a result of radiation ...