The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

Here are some pics of most earth-like exoplanets uploaded by NASA: Gliese 667Cc, 22 light-years from Earth, is 4.5 times Earth's mass, orbits its cooler red dwarf star in 28 days, and likely resides ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars’ intense heat. Both are disintegrating before our telescopic eyes, leaving trails of debris similar to a ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced ...

INDIANA, USA — Look up in mid-January just after sunset and you'll see a six-planet alignment: Four with your naked eye and two with a telescope. It's a six-planet parade! Tap HERE to track clouds for ...

Planetary parade in January: A planetary parade is a colloquial term that applies when four or more planets line up in the night sky at once. Sky watchers will get a good view of some of the planets ...

brings to the table a technique it recently used to make novel measurements of the interior of a rocky exoplanet called K2-22b — a Neptune-size world 801 light-years from Earth. "These planets ...

The night sky is putting on a celestial show over the next week with a dazzling "planetary parade" featuring six major planets and a bonus comet visible over the next few days. The four bright ...

The alignment of six planets will be visible in the night sky in January, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). In 24 Oras’ “Kuya Kim ...

An alignment of planets will be visible starting January 17. Venus and Saturn will appear within 2.2 degrees of each other. NASA says it's pretty rare to see four or five bright planets at once.