The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to ...

"We show that this design can, in principle, find half of all existing Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars within 30 light-years in less than three years." ...

Earth is the only planet known to host life. All living systems depend heavily on liquid water. While single-celled life appeared early, complex life took billions. Human existence is tiny compared to ...

China is planning its first space mission to survey the skies for exoplanets similar to Kepler-186f, an Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star (artist’s impression).

This technology, whenever it comes to fruition, should give us our very first direct images of Earth-sized exoplanets at Earth-like distances around Sun-like stars.

Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, only a select few show promise. Here we look at some of the most habitable exoplanets ever discovered ranked through their similarity to Earth. The ...

On Thursday, June 4, scientists found an exoplanet that has similar qualities with Earth. It has the same star, but almost twice bigger than our planet. Scientists found Earth 2.0 ...

The recent discovery of Earth-like exoplanet Kepler 452-b has caught people’s imagination, with some calling it “ Earth 2.0 ”. But this has led to another new, potentially far more important ...

That's according to a new analysis of data from the Kepler spacecraft. Sara Seager, an exoplanet hunter at MIT, talks about what's next in the hunt for Earth 2.0.

Ecological models in Earth-climate simulations need to be examined in the context of exoplanets, where radiation, rotation, planet orientation and land–ocean fractions are very different.