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

What if extraterrestrial life is hiding in places we had completely ruled out? For decades, astronomers have focused their search on a narrow band around stars, where water could be liquid on ...

The Earth-size planet HD 137010 b has a ‘50% chance of residing in the habitable zone’ of its sun-like star, scientists say ...

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

It's remarkably similar to Earth.

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 ...

The candidate planet, known as HD 137010 b, orbits a sun-like star and is estimated to be slightly larger than Earth ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to flesh out our understanding of the exoplanet population. The second was to ...

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

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.