A remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away has been discovered by scientists using NASA's Spi...

The hunt for Earth-like planets around distant stars could soon become a lot easier, thanks to a new...

The new research, led by PhD student Tim Bovaird and Associate Professor Charley Lineweaver from The...

NASA is developing an army of autonomous self-driving robots - equipped with webcams and GPS - that ...

Researchers have developed a new computation method to examine data from planets orbiting other star...

Scientists have discovered two new planets orbiting an ancient star near our Sun and one of them may...

In an encouraging sign of life beyond earth, NASA scientists have found faint signatures of water in...

Astronomers have discovered one of the richest planetary systems - containing up to seven planets or...

Habitable environments could be less common in the universe than previously thought, say scientists,...