Scientists from the University of Arizona described the unusual planet they discovered using the James ... "This is the first ...

This detection is the first multi-planet system discovered exclusively by crowdsourcing – the practice of obtaining services and/or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of ...

The discovery of this hierarchical planetary system adds an exciting chapter to the study of planetary formation. The ...

Astronomers at NASA have caught a glimpse of a star system whipping through space at an unprecedented speed. While the system ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

Scientists have discovered two “super-Earth” exoplanets ... researchers detected the first planet, LP 890-9b, around the star using NASA’s $287 million Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ...

Since the star is so feeble, that's well outside its habitable zone. "If so, it will be the first planet ever found orbiting a hypervelocity star." A paper describing the results, led by Terry ...

Since the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries. Many of these exoplanets are ...

The rate of exoplanet discovery has since climbed rapidly ... some experts think we’ll find the first truly Earthlike planets in the next year or two. By combining information from radial ...

Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out than the Earth - Uranus was the first planet to be discovered with the aid of a telescope, in 1781.

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...