Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

Recently, a new discovery has been made in the astronomy world in the form of a new exoplanet, Wolf 327b, which orbits the ...

According to initial assessments, this moon may be in orbit around WASP-49 b, a gas giant planet more than 600 light-years away from Earth.

There have been questions about a mysterious ninth planet in our solar system for nearly a decade. Pluto was unseated as number nine in 2006. Now, a group of international researchers say they may ...

The ongoing search for an additional planet at the solar system's edge has identified a new candidate, potentially challenging previous predictions. A research team from Taiwan, Japan and ...

Upon further investigation, it seems that Gliese 581d may be the only one of the two actually in the habitable zone, and its orbit seems to take it in and out of the zone. Not to mention, a lot of ...

This provides an effective way to search for life on planets orbiting other stars. In fact, the James Webb Space Telescope recently detected evidence of life on an extra-solar planet, that is ...