The table below shows the Resources available on other Planets and Moons within the same System as Tau Ceti VIII: ...

When I started writing here many years ago, I didn’t think news of an exoplanet in a star’s habitable zone would become so commonplace that we might not even cover it. Yet here we are a few years ...

One of the great dreams of the 21st century is to get the heck off this rock for good, whether it’s Elon Musk trying to colonize Mars or the Kepler team’s ongoing discovery of planets across our ...

Our stellar neighborhood is becoming crowded courtesy of some newly discovered real estate. Astronomers have uncovered evidence buried in the noise of apparently empty data showing that five ...

A sun-like star in our solar system's backyard may host five planets, including one perhaps capable of supporting life as we know it, a new study reports. Astronomers have detected five possible alien ...

A team of astronomers has announced that one of our neighbors, Tau Ceti, has five planets - one of which might be habitable. Tau Ceti, which is 12 light years away from Earth, has been fertile ground ...

Astronomers have detected what may be four roughly Earth-size planets orbiting Tau Ceti, the nearest sun-like star. Two of the worlds appear to orbit within Tau Ceti's habitable zone, though a cloud ...

Star system Tau Ceti has long been used in science fiction as a very likely place to have life due to its proximity to Earth and the star's sun-like characteristics. Since December 2012 Tau Ceti has ...

A nearby sun-like star called Tau Ceti may contain a system of five planets, including one that orbits at the right distance to have life. Tau Ceti has roughly three-quarters the mass of our own sun ...