Washington, April 19 (ANI): Scientists have discovered two Earth-like planets in the habitable orbit of a Sun-like star.

Washington, March 13 (ANI): The number of potentially habitable planets is greater than previously thought and some of those planets are likely lurking around nearby stars, a new analysis by a Penn State researcher as concluded.

Washington, March 6 (ANI): The surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa could offer clues to the potentially habitable ocean beneath, according to an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology.

Washington, Feb. 5 (ANI): Scientists looking for habitable planets to photograph could have better luck searching for moons, according to scientists.

Washington, January 31 (ANI): Using the latest data, a team of Penn State researchers including one of Indian origin has developed an updated model for determining whether discovered planets fall within a habitable zone.

Washington, January 8 (ANI): The number of known places in our galaxy theoretically hospitable to life may be significantly greater than previously thought, researchers say.

Washington, January 8 (ANI): Researchers have discovered 15 new planet candidates orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars.

Washington, January 8 (ANI): NASA's Kepler mission has announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates, four of which are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit in their sun's "habitable zone" - the region in the planetary system where liquid water might exist on the surface of a planet.

London, December 11 (ANI): Scientists from the Puerto Rico-based Planetary Habitability Laboratory that runs the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, an ambitious project to catalogue every habitable planet, have discovered seven worlds inside the Milky Way that could possibly harbour life.

Washington, December 4 (ANI): Stars that resemble our own Sun are scattered around the Milky Way - and a new study has suggested that any planets orbiting those stars may very well be hotter and more dynamic than Earth.

Washington, November 15 (ANI): NASA's Kepler Space Telescope - which was launched March 6, 2009 to find potentially habitable, Earth-sized planets - has successful completed its 3 1/2- year prime mission and begins an extended mission that could last as long as four years.

Washington, Nov 9 (ANI): A new super-Earth has been discovered in the habitable zone, where liquid water and a stable atmosphere could reside, around the nearby star HD 40307.

London, October 11 (ANI): Moons, rather than planets, may give us the first glimpse of habitable worlds outside our solar system, according to scientists.

London, September 11 (ANI): There could be many more habitable planets in the universe than previously thought, suggest new computer models.

Johannesburg, September 10 (ANI): Contrary to what many scientists believe, a new study has argued that early Mars may have been a hostile and volatile place with frequent volcanic outbursts.

Washington, September 6 (ANI): Astronomers have found a new super-earth in the habitable zone around the red dwarf star Gliese 163, using the European Southern Observatory HARPS telescope (or High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher).

Washington, Aug. 6 (Xinhua-ANI): NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, loaded with the most-sophisticated instruments ever used to explore another world, touched down on the Red Planet early Monday morning, on a quest for signs of whether the Red Planet has evidence of past and present habitable environments.

Washington, June 13 (ANI): Villanova university astronomers are trying to understand how the most common type of star known live its lives, and what kinds of environments they provide for possible life-bearing planets as a part of their "Living with a Red Dwarf" program.

Washington, May 8 (ANI): In the hunt for Earth-like planets, it is helpful to seek clues and patterns that can aid scientist narrow down the types of systems where potentially habitable planets are likely to be discovered.

New York, May 7 (ANI): Twitter users across the world may be able to find followers 22 light-years away - thanks to 'Tweets in Space', an avant-garde project that hopes to transmit 140-character texts to a potentially habitable planet this fall.

London, Apr 30 (ANI): Our galaxy may be teeming with billions of habitable planets, which could have huge consequences on the search for extra-terrestrial life, according to a recent survey.

Washington, April 14 (ANI): German artist Lars Stroschen has created a habitable work of art at the Propeller Island City Lodge in Berlin.

London, April 7 (ANI): Scientists say tides may dry out what would otherwise be habitable planets around small stars, making them hostile to life.

Washington, Mar 29 (ANI): Rocky planets not much bigger than Earth are ubiquitous in the habitable zones around faint red stars, according to a new research. he international team estimates that there are tens of billions of such planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone, and probably about one hundred in the Sun's immediate neighbourhood.

Washington, Feb 3 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star.