Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

The discovery of new planets is always thrilling. This time, scientists have found an unusual planet orbiting a nearby star.

Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

In the quest to find approximately Earth-sized planets located in the "Goldilocks zone" i.e. neither too hot nor too cold) ...