"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

Based on the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique for the first time, the super-Earth, Kepler-725c, with 10 times the ...

Exoplanet science is shifting from finding any detectable exoplanets we can to searching for those in their stars' habitable ...

For the first time, an international collaboration led by Chinese researchers with the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has adopted the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

Scientists like to refer to our planet as residing in the "Goldilocks zone," where it's neither too hot nor too cold, and ...

Related: The 10 most Earth-like exoplanets The Goldilocks zone is different around each star. Bigger, hotter stars like the sun, a G-type star, have a wider habitable zone, while smaller red ...

The same system also might harbor a second, Earth-sized planet, which, if confirmed, "would become the smallest habitable-zone planet discovered by TESS [the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ...

"Best of all," added the Mail, it lies just 19.7 light-years away from Earth, raising the "tantalising ... HD 20794 D is located within the so-called "Goldilocks zone", where temperatures would ...

NASA’s planet-hunting telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has discovered a second Earth-size planet within the habitable zone of a nearby star. Named TOI 700 e ...

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...