Astronomers have now confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets orbiting distant stars, marking a significant milestone in humanity’s ...

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

Astronomers spotted a young planet, WISPIT 2b, forming within a dusty ring around its star system, offering clues about the ...

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

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

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 ...

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

A recent study introduces the idea of Planet Y, a theoretical world that could explain strange gravitational behavior beyond ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

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 ...

The stunning photos of the interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, were taken by the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters last week.

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