A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

An international team of astronomers has shown for the first time that it is possible to map exoplanets using a technique ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside of our solar system. The planet orbits a star in another solar system about 21-light years away. It cannot be seen ...