IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

UNDATED (WKRC) - Astronomers recently made an important discovery when they found a rare "in-sync" solar system with six planets all moving in one big grand harmony, completely untouched by outside ...

NASA says a group of scientists may have discovered signs of a new planet beyond the Milky Way. The potential discovery could be the first-ever planet found in another galaxy. The potential planet, ...

Astronomers have indirectly observed tons of planets outside of our solar system, a.k.a. exoplanets, in the past. Including terrestrial ones that seem very habitable, ones that orbit binary stars like ...

(CNN) — Scientists may have detected signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way, in what could be the first planet ever to be discovered outside our galaxy. The possible exoplanet ...

The newly minted M51-ULS-1b is located within the Whirlpool galaxy, about 28 million light-years away from Earth. S. BECKWITH/STSCI, THE HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM/STSCI/AURA, NASA, ESA There’s a possible ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. For the very first time astronomers may have detected a ...

Astronomers at the University of Auckland claim that there are actually around 100 billion habitable, Earth-like planets in the Milky Way. There are roughly 500 billion galaxies in the universe, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync ...

(CNN) – Astronomers have discovered a rare family of six planets about 100 light years from Earth. The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a ...