Astronomers have identified a nearby world that could potentially host life. It is a “super-Earth” orbiting a faint red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away. The newly found exoplanet, named GJ ...

Scientists don't yet know whether GJ 251 c has an atmosphere, but new telescopes could reveal this within a decade.

Astronomers have discovered GJ 251 c, a rocky super-Earth just 20 light-years away, one of the most promising nearby worlds ...

SETI AIR alumnus Mike von der Nahmer has been selected as a resident artist in the Xu Bing Space Art Residency Program, part ...

A planet recently scored 0.836 on the habitability index, slightly higher than Earth, using factors like orbit shape, ...

An international team of researches has announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet (designated GJ 251 c) situated in ...

It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named GJ 251c with a minimum mass about 3.84 times that of our own planet. The ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Metallicity is a fundamental part of the Universe. The Big Bang created mostly hydrogen, the simplest and lightest element, ...