— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

NASA technology discovered a “super-Earth” exoplanet emitting “strange signals.” Rating: Mostly True (About this rating?) What's True: Scientists using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ...

Image of a dusty disk around a young star. Among the multiple concentric rings we see a small dot of light (indicated by a white circle). This is an image of a new-born planet, likely a gas giant ...

Planet 9 sits at the edge of scientific imagination, promising either an epic expansion of the Solar System or a lesson in ...

Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than the sun in both size and mass. TOI-6894, located far away from Earth, is one of them. Astronomers previously ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is only the third to be found on the outskirts of our galaxy's dense central ...

The European Southern Observatory said the discovery as "the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings" Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars. The discoveries are the first results from OASIS (Observing Accelerators ...

The Kepler probe's focus is on finding another habitable planet. — -- NASA says we're on our way to discovering Earth 2.0. The Kepler Space Telescope has located a planet and star closely ...