Extrasolar planets with a companion world tugging at them could remain habitable for much longer.
A giant laser has been used to simulate the pressures present within the cores of the gas giant planets.
The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope will be able to observe extrasolar planets like never before.
The powerful new model can help detect life on extrasolar planets more effectively than ever before.
A group of astronomers has estimated the number of habitable planets in our galaxy for the first time.
Scientists may be able to alter our genes to make the human colonization of other planets more viable.
Recent studies have revealed that extrasolar planets are extremely abundant throughout the universe.
The record-breaking haul of newly discovered worlds comes courtesy of the Kepler Space Telescope.
Astronomers seeking signs of alien life are on the lookout for 'superhabitable' extrasolar planets.
Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have picked up signs of cloud cover on two extrasolar planets.
NASA has developed a new type of landing apparatus that could make exploring other worlds much easier.
Astronomers believe that there could be an exoplanet orbiting a nearby pair of brown dwarf stars.
Scientists believe that our universe is filled with far more habitable planets than previously thought.
Since 1992 the number of planets discovered orbiting distant stars has been growing exponentially.
The two largest planets in our solar system may be home to diamond rain and liquid diamond oceans.
The fuel needed to send space probes on missions to other planets could run out within ten years.
Astronomers believe that the moons around extrasolar planets may not be good candidates for life.
Astronomers have identified a distant star system with at least three planets in its habitable zone.
Survey telescopes set up in Antarctica are being used by Chinese astronomers to look for alien planets.
NASA's Kepler mission has found several new potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars.