Some astronomers have made it their life’s work to find “Earth 2.0,” a rocky planet orbiting a star just like our own Sun. It makes sense; we know life works here, so why not look for a mirror image ...

Are Sun-like stars the only stars where Earth-like worlds exist? This is what a recent study presented this morning at the 2026 meeting of the American Astronomical Society hopes to address as a team ...

Earth plants could thrive under the light of an alien sun, according to a recent experiment. A team of astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under ...