An alien world seven times the size of Jupiter has been found in a distant star system. Astronomers detected clouds of carbon monoxide and water va...

Astronomers are still waiting to find an Earth twin amid a plethora of newly discovered worlds, many of them stranger than anything dreamed of in scie...

A mini-world the size of the Moon is the smallest planet yet discovered beyond the Solar System. The hot, barren planet orbits a Sun-like star call...

Astronomers have announced that an Earth-like planet could exist as close as 13 light years to Earth. Yes, that's still about 76 million million mi...

Nasa's archive of alien worlds has helped the public find new planets it might otherwise have missed. All of the exoplanets - worlds outside our so...

The consensus among scientists is that for a planet to be capable of harbouring life, it must have surface water and reside in the ”Goldilocks zone...

Nasa has detected infrared light streaming from a "Super Earth" marking a huge leap in the discovery of life on other planets. Nasa's Spitzer spac...

Four white dwarfs have been spotted with the disintegrated remains of Earth-like exoplanets. The stars appear to have consumed the exoplanets, whi...

An ancient planetary system from 13 billion years ago has been discovered in the constellation Cetus, 375 lightyears from Earth, that could determine ...

Eleven new planetary systems containing 26 confirmed new planets are all in a day's work for Nasa's Kepler mission. The gob-smacking discoveries j...