According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

It is believed that the planet, named HD 20794 d, is at just the right distance from its star to sustain water on its surface ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

It seems like wasted real estate,” Kane says. So Kane dropped a fictional super-Earth in that gap to see what would happen. The results are published in a recent issue of the Planetary Science ...

Well, we could be closer to discovering whether there really is alien life out there after researchers discovered a new 'super-Earth' which is six times bigger than our planet and may well inhabit ...

Mars is apparently not the only planet on our radar capable of sustaining life. UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super-Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

To simulate these conditions on Earth ... on real-world scientific advancements and theories, the novel challenges readers to think critically about the role of technology in modern life and ...

someone who studies ancient living things and how planet Earth has evolved over millions of years. Dr Neil Clark, a real life palaeontologist, shows a range of fossils including colonial coral ...