The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

It's remarkably similar to Earth.

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

Astronomers have identified a potentially habitable, Earth-size planet located about 146 light-years from our solar system, ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some exoplanets, like the one shown in this illustration, may have atmospheres that could make them potentially suitable for life.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

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

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.