Look west just after sunset from this weekend for a chance to see some of six planets, though the best views will be had ...

The transit method involves using an observatory like Kepler to 'stare' at a star and wait for its light to dim as a ...

This weekend, six planets are set to share the sky in a rare “planet parade,” giving stargazers a short but magical window to ...

NASA has developed ExoMiner++, an AI tool that speeds up the search for exoplanets by analysing massive datasets from Kepler ...

Astronomers have identified an Earth-like exoplanet 146 light-years away with a similar orbit and a Sun-like star. Could it ...

Now, a discovery by NASA has raised the tantalising possibility that we're not alone after all. The US space agency has ...

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

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

This new potentially habitable planet is about 146 light-years away and has some conditions similar to that of Mars. The team of researchers and scientists, from Australia, UK, US and Denmark ...

Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable new planet about 146 light-years away which is Earth-sized and has conditions similar to Mars. The candidate planet, named HD 137010 b, orbits a sun ...

High school student Matteo Paz wrote an algorithm with Caltech that helped find changes in space the naked eye missed, earning him a published paper and prize.

A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost ...