A new study published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences offers a simpler solution: change the shape of the ...

The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to ...

TRAPPIST-1 has the advantage for research purposes of being a faint red dwarf, which means these planets orbit close by, even those in the habitable zone, so transits occur frequently. Combining data ...

Earth is the only planet known to host life. All living systems depend heavily on liquid water. While single-celled life appeared early, complex life took billions. Human existence is tiny compared to ...

If there is about one Earth-like planet orbiting the average sun-like star, then we would find around 30 promising planets, a team proposes in the new paper.

"We show that this design can, in principle, find half of all existing Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars within 30 light-years in less than three years." To resolve nearby Earth-like ...

Prof Heidi Newberg is an astrophysicist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research focuses primarily on understanding ...