The latest of some 5,780 exoplanets so far discovered outside our own solar system is described as a "young" planet that may develop into a super-Earth: a world compositionally similar to our own but ...

The planet's home star, IRAS 04125+2902, sits just over 520 light-years from Earth, making it quite close in galactic terms.

The new exoplanet is the youngest discovered in research history and is located over 800,000 light-years from us. This ...

Scientists have discovered a nearby exoplanet that is just a baby by planetary standards, located 520 light-years away.

There are hundreds of millions of planets around other stars in our Milky Way galaxy that may be habitable, argues a new research paper. These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our ...

A few decades ago, astronomers were just entering a new frontier of exoplanet discovery. Exoplanets are planets located outside our solar system. They orbit distant stars and represent mysterious ...

The Pi Mensae system is located 59.5 light years from Earth, and the new exoplanet – if confirmed – would be officially classified Pi Mensae c, the second known exoplanet of the system.

The exoplanet is 300 lightyears away and only ... its reclassification allowed scientists to look at its entire home system in a new way. In the past, for every nine times the outer planet in ...

Since its launch in 2009, NASA's Kepler mission has used the transit method to confirm more than 60 new exoplanets and to identify 2,300 candidate planets now awaiting confirmation via further ...

Almost all known exoplanets are larger than Earth and typically ... Planet EPIC 201238110.02 is the only one of the new planets cool enough to potentially host liquid water on its surface.

Astronomers from around the world just confirmed the existence of an entirely new planet. It was first spotted by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and then confirmed after ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Three new planets were discovered by the European Southern Observatory with its Belgian Trappist telescope. They orbit a star much smaller and more dim than our sun ...