Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

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.

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is the latest in a series of stunning cosmic phenomena that should be visible in August ...

The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a little-understood class called sub-Neptunes, commonly found orbiting sun-like stars in the Milky Way.

In a paper published in Nature and led by Núria Miret-Roig, researchers detail the discovery of at least seventy free-floating planets in a region of the Milky Way known as the Upper Scorpius OB ...

On Aug. 21, a stellar alignment of planets will illuminate the night sky for the last time until the year 2028 ...

(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 ...

The planets are in a little-understood class called sub-Neptunes, commonly found orbiting sun-like stars in the Milky Way. What makes this one so rare is that this planetary system is in resonance, ...