NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

With an orbital period around one year, much like Earth's 13-hour transit duration, HD 137010 b tantalises as Earth 2.0.

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Spotting Earth-like planets is nearly impossible with conventional telescopes, but researchers propose a bold fix: a rectangular design that can separate a planet’s faint glow from its blinding star.

"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." When you purchase through links on ...

Could there be an even better planet for us than Earth? Scientists are searching for a superhabitable world that wouldn’t just rival Earth, but be a place where life could thrive even more easily.