An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Telescope observations show that frequent radiation from the exoplanet's star, a 7 billion-year-old red dwarf about the size ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a new super-Earth with an ‘eccentric’ orbit that swings it in-and-out of its star’s habitable zone ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

In 1992 astronomers reported the first planet-size masses around a dead star, the pulsar PSR1257+12, which sits 2,000 light-years away. Three years later came news of the first known exoplanet ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

our backyard — exists a world about half the size of Venus that’s 125 °C on the surface and where a year lasts three Earth days. The planet, called Barnard’s b, orbits Barnard’s star, a ...

New observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

Scientists have found two new habitable planets, nearly 8 times the size of Earth, that don’t orbit a ‘Goldilocks’ star. These are the closest candidates to Earth to support human life on ...