Out of the 6,000 known exoplanets, it's these rocky worlds that are most worthy of attention in the search for life beyond ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are observing an Earth-like exoplanet that may contain water using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the space agency ...

A Tatooine-like world with a key difference from the desert planet in "Star Wars" has been serendipitously discovered orbiting not two stars, but a pair of brown dwarfs. What's more, this wacky planet ...

The orbits of a seven-planet system discovered in Kepler Space Telescope data has been sonified. Credit: Bishop’s University / Jason Rowe / NASA Ames Research Center ...

Astronomers have spotted a molten alien planet orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way galaxy that has a surface not unlike a vision of hell.

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how planets form and orbit in the cosmos.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of a planetary system with four planets, around a small red star, called LHS1903 with a large reddish-brown ...

A team of scientists has found a new planet which orbits the wrong way around its host star. The planet, named WASP-17, and orbiting a star 1000 light years away, was found by the UK’s WASP project in ...

Space is full of mysteries that can't be easily explained by the layman, and this latest one from a isn't likely to sour anyone on their fascination with space. Scientists from several institutions, ...

An artist's impression of a planetary system with four planets, around a small red star, called LHS1903 with a large reddish-brown rocky planet with craters is visible in the foreground and three ...