Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.

What if extraterrestrial life is hiding in places we had completely ruled out? For decades, astronomers have focused their search on a narrow band around stars, where water could be liquid on ...

HD 137010 b, a new Earth-like planet found 146 light-years away, may be habitable. Discovered by NASA Kepler data, further ...

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...

Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable new planet which is estimated to be 6 percent larger than Earth. Named HD 137010 b, the planet is located about 146 light-away from Earth ...

It's remarkably similar to Earth.

A team of researchers at the University of Southern Queensland has discovered a potentially habitable planet 150 light-years ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, recent research indicates that the universe may harbor far more potentially habitable exoplanets than scientists had previously believed. This shift in understanding ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

More planets could be homes for aliens than we thought, scientists say - Planets we thought were not inhabitable might ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to flesh out our understanding of the exoplanet population. The second was to ...