Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a new super-Earth with an ‘eccentric’ orbit that swings it in-and-out of its star’s habitable zone ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - ...

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

But according to an international team of researchers, including some from the University of Geneva, in a study published ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby Sun-like star. The planet was originally ...

The study of exoplanets has come a long way since the first detection of a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun in 1995.