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 ...

"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." ...