In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

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

Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary exoplanet circling a pulsar, a remnant of a exploded massive star. Named PSR ...

The celestial body is the youngest transiting planet found to date. Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Morgan Underwood, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for ...

In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...

Planetary rings explained: composition, formation theories, and a comparison of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune’s rings.