NASA may have just found our second Earth - a planet so similar, it could be habitable for humans. But this is just the beginning. Thanks to powerful telescopes and new detection methods, scientists ...

"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star opened the door to exploring this profound ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics are helping to lead planning efforts for NASA’s next major space telescope — and its purpose will be 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." To resolve nearby Earth-like ...