NASA's Kepler mission, which has been searching the skies for Earth-like planets since 2009, has confirmed the discovery of a whopping 715 new planets orbiting around 305 stars. That bring the count ...

The formation and stability of planets in double-star environments are clarified by this astounding discovery.

Astronomers call it KOI-134, and it's a star located 3,747 light-years away from Earth. Despite the huge distance that separates us, we've known it was there for more than a decade now, ever since the ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within the binary star system TOI-2267, located approximately 190 light-years from Earth. An inter ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.

The Kepler telescope has looked up in perfect silence at the stars and found more than 1,200 new worlds. NASA said Tuesday that Kepler, constantly searching the cosmos for "exoplanets" circling other ...

Lava planets don’t play by the rules of our solar system. These scorching-hot worlds, some no bigger than Earth, orbit so close to their stars that a full year lasts less than a day. With their ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...