Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

An international team of astronomers led from regional Queensland finds an exoplanet 150 light-years away with a 50 per cent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

NASA’s Kepler data reveals HD 137010 b, a cold, Earth-sized candidate. Though freezing cold, it offers valuable insights into planetary formation and life’s potential elsewhere.

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to flesh out our understanding of the exoplanet population. The second was to ...