A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on January 27, 2026, revealing a promising yet cold candidate: HD 137010 b. Located ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers found a nearby super-Earth, GJ 251 c, orbiting in its star's habitable zone. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) In a secluded ...

Scientists suggest that huge reserves of hydrogen inside the Earth may have been key in the formation of water. Using atom probe tomography and diamond anvil cells, they were able to detect how ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a scientific first: the discovery of an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone. Now, if that sounds ...

The Earth has just added its seventh confirmed quasi-lunar moon. It is 2025 PN7, a small Apollo-type asteroid detected in August solely by its brightness, thanks to the Hawaiian Pan-STARRS 1 telescope ...

Learn about the first-ever radio signal detected from an exoplanet, a discovery that may have important implications for ...

The discovery of a possible "super-Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could harbor life, according to an ...

The Penn State-led Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF) provides the highest precision measurements to date of infrared signals from nearby stars. Pictured: The HPF instrument during installation in its ...