A giant gas planet, spanning in the sky three times the size of our Moon and rising over the molten ...

A possible planetary body disintegrating by the blazing heat of its parent star and leaving behind a...

The system with the most planets among these discoveries is Kepler-33, a star that is older and more...

After detecting life-bearing super-Earth earlier this month, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered...

The planets have been designated b, c, and d. All three planets orbit much closer to Kepler-18, a st...

A distant planet that orbits its host star five minutes early or five minutes late alternately has l...

A Jupiter-sized distant planet darker than the blackest coal has caught the attention of astronomers...

A precision spectrograph HARPS-N (High-Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher-North), is designed ...

An European rocket poised to lift a 20-tonne automated supply ship into space was delayed minutes be...