Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary neighborhood. Where would this planet need to orbit within the Sun’s ...

In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

With an orbital period around one year, much like Earth's 13-hour transit duration, HD 137010 b tantalises as Earth 2.0.

Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-sized planet located 146 light-years from our solar system. The planet, named HD ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Discoveries can come from the most unlikely places — at least, that's what one high schooler found out, after finding nearly 1.5 million new objects in space.

The Earth-size planet HD 137010 b has a ‘50% chance of residing in the habitable zone’ of its sun-like star, scientists say ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing link in planet formation.