A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search ...

The detection of a potentially rocky world around a nearby star opens up unprecedented prospects for the atmospheric ...

Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

Located some 620 light-years away in the Chamaeleon constellation, scientists recorded Cha 1107-7626 accreting six to eight ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

While researchers say they've found a potentially habitable planet, it'll take a new generation of telescopes to figure out ...

A 700-year-old forest lies within sight of North America's busiest highway, according to one biologist. Surprisingly, many ...

Our solar system now, once again, officially consists of only eight planets. Although largely debunked, speculation continued of the existence of a large unseen planet, referred to simply as Planet X, ...

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of ...

The European Southern Observatory said the discovery as "the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings" Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She ...