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, ...

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

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

Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar to the Sun, and researchers believe it may be able to ...

For millennia, humans have asked whether we are alone in the universe, yet the discovery of aliens still eludes us. But if ...

The six curiosities that Brown and Batygin identified have elongated elliptical orbits whose perihelia ... Way as our Sun orbits the center of the galaxy. "But some of it - there has to be ...

Astronomers have discovered an intriguing, potentially habitable, super-earth not far from us in cosmic terms.

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.