The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is ...

Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists ...

Dr. Pascal Lee is a planetary scientist with the SETI Institute, Mars Institute and NASA Ames Research Center in California.

to find an Earth-like planet orbiting a sunlike star. Her current focus is the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led NASA space telescope launched last year. Like Kepler ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

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

Don't put your binoculars away just yet, the planet parade continues through February. Here's which planets will be visible ...

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to ...

NASA has shared details of what to look out for in the night sky this month, with the moon appearing alongside a parade of planets.

A Month of Bright Planets Venus blazes at its brightest for the year after sunset, then Mars and Jupiter to rule the night ...

The moon has “many engagements” with the planets in February, NASA said in its monthly update on what to look out for in the night sky. Throughout February, so long as clear nights prevail ...

ALIENS could discover humans on Earth by spotting one of 12 signs, scientists say. Topping the list is a clue that could be ...