Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

When Sky first came out about a month ago, Google included a simple animation showing how the planets move in the night sky using time animation. The planets were represented by little icons, but ...

A new machine learning model has predicted that there are 44 Earth-like planets in other star systems in the Milky Way galaxy, with researchers from Switzerland claiming that the algorithm at the core ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

This artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. Astronomers have estimated that there are tens of billions of such rocky worlds orbiting faint red dwarf stars in the ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in ...

Early Mars seems to have had a protective atmosphere and liquid water in the form of oceans, rivers, and lakes. It may also ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The composite image shows seven of the solar system's planets from Earth, after sundown on Feb.