Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-sized planet located 146 light-years from our solar system. The planet, named HD ...

In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary neighborhood. Where would this planet need to orbit within the Sun’s ...

With an orbital period around one year, much like Earth's 13-hour transit duration, HD 137010 b tantalises as Earth 2.0.

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

NASA’s Kepler telescope has identified Kepler 452b, the most Earth like planet ever discovered, orbiting in the habitable zone of a sunlike star. This video explains why the find is so important, how ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

The planet is estimated to be about six per cent larger than Earth and follows a roughly 355-day orbit, according to the ...

The Earth-size planet HD 137010 b has a ‘50% chance of residing in the habitable zone’ of its sun-like star, scientists say ...