A team of astronomers that includes the University of Hawaii’ at Manoa’s Nader Haghighipour has announced the discovery of a planet that could have liquid water on its surface. The planet, which is ...

In April, a European team of astronomers announced in Astronomy & Astrophysics the discovery of two possibly habitable Earth-like planets. A&A is now publishing two independent, detailed studies of ...

A rocky alien planet called Gliese 581d may be the first known world beyond Earth capable of supporting life as we know it, a new study suggests. Astronomers performing a new atmospheric-modeling ...

European astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting a red dwarf star called Gliese 581. They state that the planet-called Gliese 581 c-could contain water, and if it does, it would be in a liquid ...

Exoplanet researchers have discovered the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet, "e", in the famous system Gliese 581, is only about twice the mass of our Earth. The team also refined the orbit ...

More than 10 years after the discovery of the first extrasolar planet, astronomers have now discovered more than 250 of these planets. Until a few years ago, most of the newly discovered exoplanets ...

In April, a European team of astronomers announced the discovery of two possibly habitable Earth-like planets. Two new detailed studies of this system confirm that one of the planets might indeed be ...