Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

Alpha Centauri A, four light-years from Earth, may host a gas giant. If confirmed, no Earthlike planets orbit in the star’s habitable zone.

The planets were detected by observing small dips in the star's brightness when they crossed in front of it from our vantage point. The innermost planet takes about nine days to orbit the star.

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." ...

These planets, they say, have a "rhythmic beat" as the planets orbit around their parent star HD110067. What they found was the planet closest to the star makes three orbits for every two of the ...

The planets were detected by observing small dips in the star's brightness when they crossed in front of it from our vantage point. The innermost planet takes about nine days to orbit the star.