Scientists using NASA’s Kepler telescope have estimated that there are potentially 17bn other planets similar in size to planet Earth in our Milky Way. The astrophysicists who have been using NASA’s ...

Alien planets are incredibly common in our own galaxy Milky Way and it may be having as many as 160 billion planets, a six-year-long study has suggested. According to the study, published in the ...

Are these planets without orbits? Astronomers have found 10 potential planets as massive as Jupiter wandering through a slice of the Milky Way galaxy, following either very wide orbits or no orbit at ...

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

Not long ago, astronomers counted the number of “exoplanets” detected outside our own solar system in the teens, then in the hundreds. Today the tally stands at just over 700. But the new study, ...

NASA has shared what people should be looking out for in the night sky throughout the month of June. Spectacular sights from planets, the galaxy and the solstice all happen in the coming weeks. Planet ...

Astronomers exploring a neighbouring galaxy have found evidence of a disc like those which help form stars and planets in our own Milky Way. It was discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud, ...

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This handout picture from the European Southern Observatory is an artist`s impression on how planets are more common than stars in the Milky Way. The new study provides evidence that there are more ...

Astronomers came to the conclusion after calculating the chances of planets orbiting in the "habitable zone" - the region just the right distance from a parent star to allow mild temperatures and ...