An international team of researchers has identified a strong candidate for a nearby, potentially rocky exoplanet orbiting ...

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning ...

Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away. Using ground and space telescopes, including ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the planets were all detected as they ...

Kepler-186f is a rocky little world in the Goldilocks zone around its star. It's the fifth planet from its parent star, and yet it orbits at a distance comparable with Mercury's orbit around our sun.

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...