It seems like wasted real estate,” Kane says. So Kane dropped a fictional super-Earth in that gap to see what would happen. The results are published in a recent issue of the Planetary Science ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Well, we could be closer to discovering whether there really is alien life out there after researchers discovered a new ...

It may seem like Earth isn't as well-decorated as its ring-bearing neighbors in the solar system, but new research suggests ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Climate change presents the gravest threat to life on Earth in all of human history. The planet is warming to a degree beyond what many species can handle, altering or eliminating habitat, reducing ...