NASA is closer than ever to finding a twin for the Earth, astronomers said on Tuesday, announcing th...

The planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft which is carrying out a new mission has made its first exoplane...

A team of astronomers has stumbled upon a rocky exoplanet weighing 17 times as much as Earth, making...

In a chance discovery, astronomers have spotted an 'upside-down' planet in the first ever "self-lens...

The hunt for potential life in outer space has taken a step forward -- an international team of rese...

The US space agency has announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a "bonanza" of 715 wo...

Scientists have discovered a new mysterious Earth-like planet - a doomed 'lava world' - with mass an...

Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope have discovered a distant planetary system...

The US space agency has said it cannot fix its hobbled planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope and is ...