In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

Astronomers have discovered fresh evidence suggesting the possible existence of an unseen planet in the far reaches of our ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Astronomers believe they’ve discovered a "Tatooine"-like planet orbiting two stars in a galaxy far, far away. The planet is orbiting two brown dwarfs, which are also known as failed stars. It’s about ...

The celestial body is the youngest transiting planet found to date. Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space ...

Rogue planet Cha 1107-7626 is swallowing gas and dust at roughly six billion tons each second, the fastest planetary growth ...

Today, astronomers have at least a dozen techniques to seek and detect planets orbiting other stars, and have turned up thousands. But 51 Peg will always be special since it was our first. Not only ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...