Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

It wasn’t all that long ago that the thought of detecting planets outside of our ... at the center of a galaxy, have a tendency to bend light as it passes. From our vantage point, the effect ...

Researchers have looked at our nearest stellar neighbor and made a remarkable discovery.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...

Kepler scientists have added 833 new exoplanet candidates (potential planets outside our solar system ... like stars in the Milky Way, meaning our galaxy could be home to billions of planets ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found in the Milky Way since the first confirmed discovery in the 1990s ...

Most planets outside our solar system are far too dim ... that resembles the stuff found in known planets. Many stars in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, may have formed in a similar manner to ...

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 ...

The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has excited ... method to search for signs of planets outside the Milky Way ...

This means that the carbon that is now inside our bodies was once a part of the CGM and roamed outside ... in the galaxy. Then gravity shapes these materials in the form of stars, planets ...