Stargazers have discovered 20 worlds “hiding in plain sight” which they believe could be habitable. Analysis of data from the Kepler space telescope revealed a list of planets that orbi… ...

Stargazers have discovered 20 worlds "hiding in plain sight" which they believe could be habitable. Analysis of data from the Kepler space telescope revealed a list of planets that orbit stars ...

The planets in our top 8 were ranked according to how they score on the Earth Similarity Index, a scale devised by researchers in an attempt to evaluate how habitable a certain planet is. Let’s ...

The second planet added to the catalog this month is HD 283869 b, which is less similar to Earth but still makes the cut for being potentially habitable. "The planet around HD 283869 seems like a ...

Astronomers have created a catalog of 1,822 nearby stars around which the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission might spot planets receiving Earth-like levels of starlight. This is ...

Not necessarily, say researchers at Washington State University who have produced a list of 24 planets outside our Solar System that are not only Earth-like, but may even be better than Earth.

Astronomers at the University of Auckland claim that there are actually around 100 billion habitable, Earth-like planets in the Milky Way. There are roughly 500 billion galaxies in the universe ...

Scientists hunting for planets that could support life have been too focused on finding places that resemble Earth, according to a report in the journal Astrobiology. The authors have come up with ...

More than one-third of the giant planet systems recently detected outside our solar system may harbor Earth- like planets covered in deep global oceans that offer abundant potential for life ...

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...