"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered if there is life on another planet? Exoplanets may hold the key to this question.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely ...