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

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that might have favorable conditions for liquid water. This planet, HD 20794 d, ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to house water too, according to the research team that found it ...

Astronomers have discovered a large Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star that could be home to alien life. The exoplanet ...

Alien planet HD 189733 b might look like a lovely blue world – but it's far from cosyCredit: Nasa/ESO/M. Kornmesser That's around seven times the speed of sound, Nasa explains. It's called HD ...

AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This ...

This is the case of planet HD 20794 d, which has just been detected by a team that includes members of the UNIGE Astronomy Department. This promising planet is a super-Earth, a telluric planet ...

They confirmed the existence of a rocky planet, called a "super-Earth," that's some six times as massive as Earth. While the world HD 20794 d is larger than our planetary home, it's relatively low ...

For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...