Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

"Decades from now, we may look back at this point in time and recognise it was when the living universe came within reach," ...

Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

What do you think of when it comes to extraterrestrial life? Most popular sci-fi books and TV shows suggest humanoid beings ...

British researchers have found the "strongest evidence yet" of alien life beyond Earth with the discovery of an ocean-covered ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

An international team of astrologers claim to have discovered a 'super Earth' that's bigger than our own blue planet but smeller than Neptune.

This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling ...

"The algorithm achieves precision values of up to 0.99, which means that 99% of the systems identified by the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star ...

It's not the first time researchers have found a planet like the one in Star Wars, but this alien world has a particularly ...