As shocking as it sounds today, prior to the 1990s, scientists couldn't be certain that stars beyond the sun also had planets orbiting them. Since the discovery of the first extra-solar planet, or ...

NASA’s Pandora satellite has launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to study alien planet atmospheres, helping scientists ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some have already been found. Thanks to rapidly advancing telescope technology, ...

Astronomers discovered the TRAPPIST-1 system, a family of tightly packed planets swarming a red dwarf star, about eight years ago. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly detected the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system. The unique observation shows it may be possible to find ...

WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) - Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a predicament never previously observed. This ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that challenges the ...

Alien life on a new planet “may not have DNA like humans but might walk on two legs”, experts have revealed. It follows the discovery of an extraterrestrial world around 120 light years away from ...

A new Alien: Earth teaser has set up the alien invasion of earth the show revolves around. The brief clip, below, shows events from the point of view of an alien as it races through the interior of a ...