That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...

What can carbon dioxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international ...

SPACE (KXAN) — A star flying through the night sky may be the fastest-moving solar system in our galaxy. Possibly a planet a little larger than Neptune orbiting a small star, the system could be ...

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

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

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

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very ...