What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Astronomers have discovered a nearby exoplanet that should instantly top the list of worlds beyond our solar system worth checking for signs of alien life. Ross 128 b orbits the star Ross 128 just 11 ...

At the end of August, a scientific team from the European Southern Observatory announced the discovery of Proxima b, the first exoplanet ever discovered around Proxima Centauri, the closest star in ...

In our profound quest to discover strange new worlds, we've inevitably been trying to find alien planets that possess any Earth-like similarities. Now, with the incredible find of an Earth-mass ...

Earth is round. I know it. You know it. Bill Nye knows it. But still, in 2017, many flat Earth truthers still are denying what has been known as scientific fact for centuries. They draw in a famous ...

Last year, rapper B.o.B. used Twitter to jump on the ‘flat Earth’ bandwagon, and it looks like he’s been riding it ever since. The “Nothin’ on You” star has started a GoFundMe campaign to find Earth’s ...

Last week, researchers confirmed the existence of a rocky—and possibly wet—planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun. Dubbed Proxima b, the planet lies within the "habitable zone" ...

Yesterday, in arguably what is the most important exoplanet discovery ever made, scientists from the Pale Red Dot project announced they had found a potentially Earth-like world on the closest star to ...

A planet that could be Earth's cousin is circling the nearest star beyond our sun. Could Proxima b also host cousins of a different sort? Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his ...

We all have questions we struggle with. For rapper B.o.B., it's why he should believe the Earth is round. He's spoken publicly about believing in a flat Earth for almost two years now, including ...