Editorial: A planet just like home
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For however many millennia mankind has peered at the heavens, no one had ever identified a planet outside the solar system, and, being prone to extrapolating, many assumed no one ever would.
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By Matt Branaugh, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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The whitest place on Earth could be the coolest place on the planet for astronomy.
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CANNES, France -- It just doesn't seem fair. We're sitting in a bungalow by the Mediterranean with Leonardo DiCaprio, and he's talking about the end of the world. Not necessarily the end of the Earth, mind you. The planetary ecosystem will continue to function (barring collision with a meteor, bu...
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Astronomers find a strange new world that has them pondering again the essential properties of a planet.
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A University of Colorado study has embarked on demonstrating that new planets can be found with the help of an orbiting starshade. The method has been compared to building a giant pinhole camera in space.
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We are making dangerous discoveries in space. In April, astronomers found, on our cosmic doorstep, a planet dubbed Gliese 581c. Nestling close to a dim red star, it's a rocky world only a little larger than Earth. Like Earth, it could support liquid water.
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Is this newly discovered feeble point of light the long-sought bona-fide image of an exoplanet? A research paper by an international team of astronomers provides sound arguments in favor, but the definitive answer is now awaiting further observations.
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WASHINGTON: When extra terrestrials want to tell their fellow beings, back on their mother planets, what earthlings are like, chances are that they will be visiting the nearest post office rather than rushing to the neighbourhood phone booth, as a new
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A city which has embraced the concept of eco-friendly housing hosts the International Earthship Conference.
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Astronomers  have spotted a planet that has survived the massive ballooning of its parent  star, providing the first optimistic evidence for the long-term survival of  Earth.
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Earth-like planets orbiting other stars may be far more common than had once been thought, a study suggests.
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The United Federation of Planets has never looked so crisp and   full of dimension.
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The greener side to affairs of the heart.
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What might be the first known &quot;Earth-like&quot; planet orbiting a star like our own sun has been reported by European astronomers.
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By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post Staff Writer
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These are hopeful times for those who like to think the prospects of life elsewhere are good.