Gliese 832 c is the nearest best habitable world candidate so far (PHL @ UPR Arecibo) – An international team of astronomers, led by Robert A. Wittenmyer from UNSW Australia, report the discovery of…

The planets around the nearby red-dwarf Kapteyn’s star are over twice as old as Earth (PHL @ UPR Arecibo) – An international team of astronomers, led by Guillem Anglada-Escude from Queen Mary…

One Percent of All Exoplanets May Be Suitable for Complex Organisms (PHL @ UPR Arecibo) – The number of planets on which complex life could exist in the Milky Way may…

The Kepler Spacecraft has found more planets than any other mission in history. After completing it’s primary mission it experienced reaction wheel failures during an extended life mission and could…

First Potentially Habitable Terran World Kepler-186 is a stellar system of five planets with an Earth-size world in the habitable zone. Simulated comparison of a sunset on Kepler-186f and Earth….

An international team of astronomers led by Mikko Tuomi from the University of Hertfordshire announced the discovery of four nearby potentially habitable super-Earth worlds among eight new planet candidates. They orbit the…

NASA today added another 715 new worlds to the list of known planets outside our own solar system. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our…

(NASA) Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Plumes of water…