Exoplanet exploration has taken off in recent years, with over 5,500 being discovered so far. Some have even been in the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out ...

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

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets – almost ...