Scientists work to define a “habitable zone,” which means that if it’s too close to a star, the water heats and evaporates, and too far, it freezes. Also, the atmospheric conditions need to be just ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Because this planet is relatively close to Earth and orbits a bright star, it is a perfect target for future telescopes.

ANDES stands for ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. AndES is a high-resolution instrument that can search for ...

The exoplanet HD 20794d swoops in and out of its habitable zone every few hundred days, making for an extreme climate.

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that might have favorable conditions for liquid water. This planet, HD 20794 d, ...

The discovery of a potentially habitable 'super-Earth' exoplanet, HD 20794 d, was published in the scientific journal ...

Astronomers have discovered another exoplanet that may have favourable conditions for the existence of liquid water. We are ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.