Astronomers aimed the Very Large Telescope in Chile at a nearby exoplanet and discovered jet stream winds blowing nearly 80 times faster than any seen here on Earth, and the fastest of their kind ever ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a predicament never previously observed. This exoplanet, ...

A newly discovered “super-Earth” planet could allow us to finally see alien life, researchers say. The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 light years away – is thought to be a “super Earth” ...

SIGNS of an alien planet that’s about the same size as Earth have been picked by up a Nasa telescope. Scientists say it might even be within its host star’s “habitable zone”, but there’s a big problem ...

Astronomers claim to have discovered the strongest signs yet of possible life on a planet 700 trillion miles away from Earth. The astronomers detected the chemical fingerprints of gases in the alien ...

The planet is located about 30 times further from its star than Earth's distance from the sun and might be larger than Jupiter — the biggest planet in our solar system Author of the article: You can ...

SHOCKED astronomers have spotted a “rogue” planet that defies historic theories. A unique “inside out” planetary system with a distant rocky world turns our understanding of planet formation ...

A new definition for the astronomical term 'planet' would apply to all alien worlds we've discovered so far, but would still leave Pluto off the list. A new and improved definition for the term ...