Frequent flares from the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 could offer new clues in the search for habitable planets beyond Earth.

The mystery of whether TRAPPIST-1e has an atmosphere capable of hosting life continues. Discover more about it.

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

TRAPPIST-1 looks small and calm from Earth. Up close, it is anything but. The cool red star about 40 light-years away erupts ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

Researchers studied the orbits of 150 planets in the Milky Way and found that many of them were at the right temperature to have life. For generations, scientists have known that the Milky Way ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life. That planet is Earth, as you may have guessed, and it has all the right conditions for critters to thrive on its surface. Do ...

About 40 light-years from Earth, a set of seven Earth-sized planets are orbiting a star called TRAPPIST-1. Now, scientists studying the system with the Webb Space Telescope have found one of them, ...

Two teams of scientists have discovered a theoretically habitable planet, smaller than Earth but bigger than Venus, orbiting a small star about 40 light-years away. The exoplanet, named Gliese 12b, ...

Researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have experimentally ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of California, Berkeley now estimate that one in five stars like the sun have planets about the size of Earth and a surface ...