Eric Schmidt, a former CEO of Google, and his wife Wendy are funding four advanced telescopes, including one for space. These observatories...

NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 exoplanets. This milestone highlights the diversity of planetary systems. Scientists use transit ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope believe they may have found a Saturn-sized planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, one of the cl...

In approximately 4.5 billion years, as the sun transforms into a red giant and engulfs Earth, Jupiter's moon Europa may offer a temporary r...

Scientists from Oxford University have confirmed the discovery of HD 20794 d, a “super-Earth” exoplanet located 20 light-years away, which ...

Stars come in many varieties, including simmering dwarfs and brilliant hypergiants.

The CHES will observe about 100 Sun-like stars 32 light-years away on a long-term survey, and will hopefully discover roughly 50 Earth-like...

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New York, Dec 19 (IANS) Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to the Earth, may be home to some small, Earth-like planets which have been...

Mumbai, July 19 (IANS) Three space-based observatories Astrosat, Chandra, Hubble Space Telescope and a ground-based observatory HARPS have ...

London, July 17 (IANS) To the delight of those trying to find life beyond our solar system, a team of astronomers has claimed to have picke...

London, April 20 (IANS) A rocky exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star 40 light-years from the Earth may be the best ...

The orbit is seen almost edge-on from Earth and as the exoplanet passes in front of the star once per orbit it blocks a little of its light...

In a particular range of distances from two sun-like host stars, a planet covered in water would remain habitable and retain its water for ...

The US space agency's Spitzer Space Telescope found the first known system of seven Earth-sized planets around a single star.

Gazing at the stars isn’t something you can do anymore as city lights blank out the night sky. But the LED revolution may help reverse ligh...

The bulk of those planets - 92 per cent - are yet to be born, according to the assessment of data collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescop...