The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

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

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien worlds: their orbits follow a consistent rhythm. If one planet in a system ...

Dubbed HD 137010 b, the planet might fall just within the outer edges of its star's 'habitable zone', meaning there could be liquid water on its surface and a suitable atmosphere for life.

Astronomers have spent the past decade cataloguing thousands of planets beyond the solar system, many of them falling into a ...

:rocket: Could aliens be hiding on a frozen twin of Earth? NASA has just discovered a rocky exoplanet that’s remarkably ...

A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any ...

Finding new worlds out there is pretty exciting, right? Scientists are getting really good at spotting planets around other ...