Most have been found via microlensing: their gravity acts as a lens that boosts the light of a background star in a ...

In a new study, scientists discover that white dwarf stars have greater potential to host habitable planets than previously ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

Rogue planets—planets that are adrift in space ... year history offers a long time for shedding worlds into the Milky Way. But there very well could be galactic nomads wandering in deep space ...

Researchers led by Lankan Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe say life-bearing planets may exist in vast numbers in the space between stars in the Milky Way "The quest for planets outside our solar system ...

Jessica Libby-Roberts, a planetary scientist at Pennsylvania State University, said in a statement, "Super puff planets are fairly rare, and when they do occur, they tend to be the only one in a ...

Astronomers since then indeed have discovered worlds, called circumbinary planets, orbiting two stars. But for sheer ...

The most common stars in the Milky Way may be even less friendly to life ... stellar bodies smaller and less massive than the sun, may blast their planets with intense ultraviolet (UV) light ...

The star is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 12,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Aquila.

Speaking of galaxies like the Milky Way, that wonderful implement known as the James Webb Space Telescope has found another ...

This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Credit: NASA/JPL.

One of these, SIMP 0136, wanders aimlessly in the Milky Way ... to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to achieve this could be to bombard the Red Planet with water-rich asteroids.