Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Among the most prevalent stars in our galaxy are red dwarfs, M-dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than our Sun. The ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

The celestial body is the youngest transiting planet found to date. Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps ...

In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Morgan Underwood, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for ...

How many exoplanets orbit two stars? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists announced the discovery of a new exoplanet ...