Potentially habitable exoplanets are so incredibly common that astronomers have started to consider more unusual situations ...

New research sheds light on F-type stars. Could these hot and massive stars be the key to finding habitable planets and potential alien life?

Do we have a planetary ... astronomical units in the solar system," they write. "To understand the constraints on life beyond Earth, we can start by reviewing why our home planet is a good habitat ...

NASA have discovered a planet bigger than Earth accompanied by gas that is 'only produced by life' in what is an incredible ...

The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere after all, ...

If astrobiologists are ever going to detect life beyond our solar system, it will arguably ... the prototype for a new class of planet now known as hot Jupiters. We have moved from pure detection ...

It is possible that our own Solar System has produced its own rogue planets. "In addition to rogue planets being generated during the formation process, planetary scientists have come to realize ...

In this way each planet helps to form the next, like a line of falling dominos each triggering the next in turn. To date over 5000 planetary systems have ... like our own Solar System, is still ...

For billions of years, it's kept our star ... other studies that have proposed interstellar flybys to explain eccentricities in the orbits of certain objects in the solar system.

It seems 2025 will have a strong start, too, with a planet parade just a few weeks into the new year. A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at ...