An international team, including researchers from Penn State, has unveiled the discovery of a potentially habitable "super-Earth" less than 20 light-years from our solar system, marking a significant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers found a nearby super-Earth, GJ 251 c, orbiting in its star’s habitable zone. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) In a secluded ...

A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new study. The findings may help to explain why Earth became geologically vibrant ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have identified a newly discovered exoplanet that may orbit within the outer edge of its star's habitable zone, ...

New research suggests that many planets previously considered promising for life may, in fact, be far less hospitable. A ...

WASHINGTON — An Earth-sized planet in its star's habitable zone has been discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope. NASA says the newly found exoplanet is the closest to Earth in size and ...

Relative sizes of the newly discovered habitable-zone planets and Earth. Left to right: Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists' renditions). Image credit: ...