Upon further investigation, it seems that Gliese 581d may be the only one of the two actually in the habitable zone, and its ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found iron-rich carbonates on Mars, offering new clues about the planet's ancient climate and ...

These conditions classify the exoplanet as being in what astronomers refer to as the habitable zone – where planets have the right conditions for water, providing a key ingredient for life to ...

"This is a transformational moment in the search for life beyond the solar system, where we have demonstrated that it is possible to detect biosignatures in potentially habitable planets with ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But not everyone agrees that it signals life. An illustration shows what ...

these planets could have more habitable real estate on their surfaces than previously thought.” Shields and her team led the National Science Foundation-funded study which was published ...

The model could significantly accelerate and thus revolutionize the future search for habitable planets in the universe. The search for Earth-like exoplanets—planets orbiting stars other than ...

While more research is needed, “It’s the first time humanity has seen potential biosignatures on a habitable planet,” said Nikku Madhusudhan, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge ...

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our ... in that it orbits its star in a habitable or "goldilocks" zone.