A recent study has sparked intrigue by suggesting the existence of a mysterious object from beyond our solar system behaving ...

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

Some planets may be soot-rich rather than water-based. Atmosphere studies will be key to understanding their true nature. Astronomers generally consider water worlds to be among the most common types ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas ...

Stellar migration may greatly increase the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Future ESA missions will test these predictions with detailed exoplanet observations. What can the Galactic Hab ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, scientists say. That hope comes after researchers found the first ever binary ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would ...

WASHINGTON -- The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it's a crowded cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber stars in our galaxy and they're even finding them in the ...

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WASHINGTON — Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical: at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way. At least 500 million of those ...