In about 4.5 billion years, the Sun will enter its red giant phase, swallowing Mercury and Venus and rendering Earth uninhabitable. This radical transformation will push the habitable zone toward ...

How do terrestrial planets like Earth form and evolve to enable life to exist? This is what a recent study published in ...

Because Venus's surface is covered by a single plate, a high-velocity impact led to a superheated core and long-lived volcanism. On Mars, a large, low-velocity impact facilitated variations in its ...

New research says that the search for extraterrestrial life may be too narrow, as life could thrive in conditions far ...

Hycean worlds are also called ocean worlds. They're planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres.

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

Researchers found that, when Jupiter was closer to the sun around a billion years ago, Venus had an orbit of 0.3, meaning that there was a higher probability that the planet was habitable.

SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool. Searching for Earth-like planets – and Earth-like life R… ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

More A huge "super-Earth" with an extreme climate that results in it being habitable for only part of its orbit has been discovered orbiting a star 2,472 light years away. And the most remarkable ...