What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely ...

Only 11.4 light-years away, two exoplanets have been detected around a neighboring star. One of them, Gl725Bc, is located in ...

A recent study of an exoplanet 120 light-years away revealed it has elements that are believed to be essential in the formation of life. NASA studied K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as ...

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 ...

The exoplanet LHS 3844b (left) is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits the star LHS 3844 (right). Discovered in 2018 by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey, LHS 3844b is located 48.6 ...

How can identifying land on exoplanets help scientists better understand whether an exoplanet could harbor life? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

The experts can use these findings in their search for life on exoplanets with similar chemical profiles.

Scientists have developed a better model to understand "steam worlds," which are planets smaller than Neptune and larger than Earth that are too hot to have liquid water at their surface and thus have ...

Time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. I'm joined by the show's two hosts, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong. Hello, hello. REGINA BARBER AND EMILY KWONG: Hey, Ailsa ...

Are we alone in the universe? Are we alone in the universe? The search for exoplanets—planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system—is helping scientists get closer to an answer. From hot Jupiters to ...