Astronomers have discovered a large Earth-like planet orbiting ... could exist on the surface. Artist's impression of exoplanet planet HD 20794 d and its orbit in and out of its star's habitable ...

Habitable zone: artist’s impression of the TRAPPIST-1 system, where four exoplanets are considered prime targets in the search for extraterrestrial life. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The presence of ...

In April, the scientific world—and the public—was abuzz with the thrilling news that a distant planet called K2-18b might ...

The new observations were carried out using JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which captured signals in the mid-infrared ...

Whether or not it remains habitable, Earth ... An artist's impression of two stars merging and creating a new gas cloud from which Halla could have emerged as a "second generation" planet So ...

One bizarre element in space is rogue planets, worlds just like our own ... instead became stuck as a lone gas giant. Here's an artist's impression of CFBDSIR 2149-0403. It is a free-floating ...

Earth-like exoplanets might be more common throughout the Milky Way than previously believed, astronomers report in a new study.

Your new holiday hotspot could be four Earth-like planets twirling around one of our closest cosmic neighbours. Well, maybe don’t go on SkyScanner just yet. It’s more likely a destination for ...

An artist's impression ... of a potential second Earth. Around 5,000 exoplanets have been found since 1995, but no Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones of sun-like stars have been spotted.

Artist’s impression ... planet around its star is so close and fast that one complete orbit occurs roughly every 53 hours. For context regarding how close HAT-P-32b's orbit is to its star, Earth ...

our solar system's biggest planet, had been spotted orbiting white dwarfs. The white dwarf is orbited by two bodies - the Earth-like planet and, further out, a brown dwarf, an object bigger than a ...