When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...
Although astronomers have directly imaged a few dozen gas giants on the scale of Jupiter, Earth-sized planets are too small and dim to be directly imaged. That's not to say there's a shortage of Earth ...
"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...
Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...