Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Scientists from Oxford University have confirmed the discovery of HD 20794 d, a “super-Earth” exoplanet located 20 light-years away, which may have the conditions needed to support life. Despite its ...

Scientists have discovered a potentially record-breaking fast planetary system, with a star and possible exoplanet moving at ...

In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth—a planet larger than Earth but smaller than ...

It was, of course, a great joy for me when we could confirm the planet’s existence,” said Dr. Cretignier. “It was also a ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

Astronomers at NASA have caught a glimpse of a star system whipping through space at an unprecedented speed. While the system ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Astronomers may have discovered the fastest-moving planet system ever found, moving through our galaxy at speeds of at least ...