Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists have discovered a few worlds that could be even better for life. Behold, ...

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that appears to flip one of astronomy's most reliable rules on its head.

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

The researchers discovered the candidate world while examining data gathered by the NASA Kepler space telescope in 2017. It ...

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning jewel—a planet around a tiny red dwarf star that may have the right conditions to ...