An international research team announces the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a binary star system. Named HD 143811 b, ...

Only 11.4 light-years away, two exoplanets have been detected around a neighboring star. One of them, Gl725Bc, is located in ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand-new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter. What's more, the find represents the first clear detection of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The unexpected detection of a new planet has been hailed as a “remarkable discovery” by Irish astronomers who were involved in its ...

The discovery overturns traditional models that predicted gas giants in outer orbits and suggests planets can form in gas-poor environments.

NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

The science community may be ecstatic over the discovery of a ninth planet, but the former planet "Pluto" had a totally different reaction. Hours after scientists announced there's solid evidence of ...

A team of researchers at the University of Southern Queensland has discovered a potentially habitable planet 150 light-years away near the outer edge of the habitable zone.