In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which examined the sky for exoplanets ...

It's remarkably similar to Earth.

“This is the first planet candidate with Earth-like radius and orbital properties transiting a Sun-like star bright enough ...

The planet is estimated to be about six per cent larger than Earth and follows a roughly 355-day orbit, according to the study.

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in Earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her data from a bird's-eye ...

Before Earth, there was “proto Earth,” a primitive hunk of rock that formed four and a half billion years ago. It was drastically different to the Earth we know today, heaving with lava and rock all ...

This doesn’t mean Mars causes ice ages on its own. Orbital cycles are only part of the picture. Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, ...

Scientists are beginning to read Earth in a different way, not from orbit, but from the surface of the moon. A recent study,“Spherical Harmonic Finger.