Alien planets are incredibly common in our own Milky Way galaxy and it may be having as many as 160 ...

Sky gazers can witness Earth's three neighbours - Jupiter, Venus and Mars - appearing in conjunction...

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

As the number of discovered planets has grown, astronomers are finding that stellar mass does seem t...

European astronomers have announced the discovery of about 50 new planets outside our Solar System; ...

The researchers think that the "diamond planet" is all that remains of the original star, most of wh...

The team of scientists has discovered planets outside our solar system -- exoplanets -- when they 't...

The data revealed differences between the sun and planets in oxygen and nitrogen, which are two of t...

An analysis of the central bulge of the Milky Way galaxy a few years back by a joint Japan-New Zeala...