What will it look like when we finally reach another star system with habitable planets? Here is one possibility. Over on Concept Art’s Environment of the Week forum, Pixeltuner contributed the ...

Picture a world where ice does not melt, even while the ground glows with temperatures hotter than molten metal. Far beyond ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A long-standing astronomical mystery about the first-ever discovered ...

Meet Gliese 667C, the little star with the big family. Gliese 667C resides near the "stinger" stars in the tail of Scorpius the Scorpion. You can even see it in binoculars on a clear night low in the ...

On a special episode (first released on Wednesday, June 26th) of The Excerpt podcast: The age-old question has been debated for centuries. Might we soon get an answer? The planet that is the current ...

The planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581, one of the closest stars to the Sun in the galaxy, has been the subject of several studies aiming to detect the first potentially habitable ...

The nearest exoplanets to us provide the best opportunities for detailed study, including searching for evidence of life outside the Solar System. In research led by the University of Göttingen, the ...