When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

In recent decades, exoplanets discovery has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos. These distant worlds, orbiting stars beyond our Sun, have opened an entirely new chapter in astronomy. Once ...