There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...

The rare astronomical event will see Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn appear at the same time, ...

Astronomers have discovered a large Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star that could be home to alien life. The exoplanet ...

First discovered in 2009, GJ 1214 b is described by the JWST team as being “sub-Neptune-sized” - smaller than the outermost ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Found by Dr Michael Cretignier of the University of Oxford, the planet has a mass six times greater than Earth's and orbits in a "habitable zone" of a star similar to the sun.

Or, for those who remember vinyl records, think of the grooves around the central hub as the planets' orbits. Earth’s orbit lies in that same plane, so from our perspective, we cannot see the ...

Venus" exoplanet 47 light-years away, with a thick atmosphere, challenging previous planetary classifications.