Astronomers discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System. The newly discovered planet is only 50% larger than the Earth and scientist have speculated it might be capable of having liquid water. The Swiss, French and Portuguese scientists who ...

In 2003 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. The findings have been published on Feb. 1 2007 in a letter to the journal Nature by researchers from the University of ...