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 it’s only been seen once—and may never be glimpsed again ...

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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Lately we've been reporting about a series of studies on the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), NASA's flagship telescope ...

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 ...

JWST observations are consistent with the planet TRAPPIST-1e having an atmosphere, two new papers report. The results don’t mean an atmosphere is definite, let alone tell us if it has a composition ...