For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

HD 20794 d, with a mass six times that of Earth, orbits a star similar to our sun. The planet’s location within the habitable ...

How many stars in our galaxy may be accompanied by planets capable of supporting intelligent life? The answer requires reflection on the characteristics and life history of stars ...

"This shows that the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own System ... and the radius of planets outside the Solar System. Today, telescopes like ...

Scientists believe the exoplanet HD 20794 d, six times the mass of Earth, could harbour liquid water on its surface.

"This shows that the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own system ... and the radius of planets outside the solar system. Today, telescopes like ...

New planets are now being discovered outside our Solar System on a regular basis, and these strange new worlds are forcing scientists to rewrite the history of our own Solar System. Far from a ...

The telescope used what's known as the transit method to look for exoplanets (worlds outside our solar system), launching a new era of planetary discovery. Kepler watched over 530,000 stars for ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has caught the first-ever direct image of two planets outside the solar system orbiting an Earth-like star. The trio captured on camera ...

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Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...