When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. There are currently more than 5,800 known planets beyond the solar system. Artist Martin Vargic ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

Reddit user sirvante70 has assembled an image showing all known planets in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that are capable of supporting human life.

A rogue planet (or a free floating planet) is generally a Jupiter sized body that inhabits the space between stars, unbound by the gravity of a parent star. It’s believed that these planets either ...

LAS VEGAS--MindArk, the developer of the science fiction-based virtual world, Entropia Universe, has announced that it is spinning off the functional game side of its business into a separate company.

Huge, red "super-Jupiter" exoplanet orbits its star. Since astronomers first looked beyond the solar system three decades ago to discover extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, we've known that planets in ...

Not all planets have a home. For decades, astronomers and science fiction authors alike have speculated about orphaned orbs cast adrift from their home stars, endlessly wandering the boundless reaches ...

A star about 600 light-years away is giving astronomers a front-row view to the environments in which rocky planets like Earth form around the most abundant stars in the universe. Called ISO-ChaI 147, ...

We normally think of planets as being synonymous with gas giant or rocky worlds orbiting a parent star. And as far as stars go, the Milky Way is lined with hundreds of billions of them, each with ...

A new era is born.

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.