Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury will shine bright enough for the naked eye to see, and you can catch glimpses of Uranus and Neptune with binoculars or a telescope.

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, scientists say. That hope comes after researchers found the first ever ...

ASTRONOMERS may have just found the fastest exoplanet system in the galaxy – a super-Neptune world orbiting a hypervelocity ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Scientists have discovered the first-ever binary star system near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy ... as "amazing" in mapping out the Milky Way's evolution.

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never ...

A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using microlensing, astronomers spotted the pair moving at over 1.2 million mph.

And yes, they'll be in a line. But because planets always appear in a line from our Earth-bound vantage, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common, according to astronomers ...

The planet is tidally locked to its star, which means one side is always facing it and, for that reason, has a scorching ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our ... planets. More NASA, ESA, Caltech / ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS "[T]he puzzle for theoretical astrophysics has long been to figure ...

Aside from Earth, no planet in the solar system captures our imagination quite like Mars. The Red Planet is one of the few places in our cosmic neighborhood where extraterrestrial life may have ...