A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have discovered an exoplanet dubbed HD 20794 d that could have the right conditions ...

The study of exoplanets has come a long way since the first detection of a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun in 1995.

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...

Astronomers aimed the Very Large Telescope in Chile at a nearby exoplanet and discovered jet stream winds blowing nearly 80 ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a new super-Earth with an ‘eccentric’ orbit that swings it in-and-out of its star’s habitable zone ...

There’s a terminator in our midst. Squinting through a telescope, I see it. The fuzzy line (in non-astro speak) where the ...

Cinephiles love to debate their favorite cinematic decades and will find plenty of evidence to back up their claims. But when ...