NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. All planets in the Milky Way may be formed by the same ...

People used to argue about whether or not planets like the eight (or more) in our solar system were rare. Starting in the 1990s with the discovery of the first exoplanets, it became clear planets are ...

A new study claims to have detected evidence of a planet outside of the Milky Way. Not everyone is convinced. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, ...

This video investigates whether dinosaurs could exist somewhere else in the universe. It breaks down the planetary conditions ...

According to new research, there could be as many as six billion Earth-like planets orbiting stars in our galaxy. By definition, Earth-like planets must be roughly the size of our planet and also be ...

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 ...

Planets that go rogue orbit no star. They wander the vacuum of space alone, having been kicked out of their star systems by gravitational interactions with other planets and stars. Nobody really knows ...

Outside of Earth, intriguing ocean worlds in our solar system are of interest to astronomers as potential hubs of life. New estimates and calculations suggest that there are even more Earth-like ...

Today, astronomers announced that they have found a new exoplanet, a planet orbiting another star. Nearly 500 exoplanets have been found in the past 15 years, so what’s the big deal, you may ask? The ...

Our galaxy has planets aplenty. Our sun possesses at least eight of them, and in recent years, we’ve learned that most other stars have some, too. But according to a new simulation of star behavior, a ...