Carbon worlds may be waterless: NASA

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 14:56

Planets rich in carbon, including so-called diamond planets, may lack oceans, according to a NASA study.

Solar system with seven planets discovered

Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 16:13

Astronomers have discovered one of the richest planetary systems - containing up to seven planets orbiting a Sun-like star - 127 light years from Earth.

Exoplanet tally passes 1,000

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 13:04

Scientists have revealed that the number of observed exoplanets - worlds circling distant stars - has passed 1,000.

Misaligned planets in distant planetary system discovered

Last Updated: Friday, October 18, 2013, 14:02

Using NASA`s Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers have found a distant planetary system, which features multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their host star.

Ancient Earth may have looked like Jupiter`s volcanic moon Io

Last Updated: Monday, September 30, 2013, 12:00

Scientists suggest that Jupiter`s strange and hyper- volcanic moon Io is the best comparison to ancient Earth.

Classification of brown dwarfs hinging between stars and planets

Last Updated: Friday, September 6, 2013, 18:54

Brown dwarfs, sometimes called failed stars, are indeed the coldest known free-floating celestial bodies, and are warmer than previously believed with temperatures hovering at about 250-350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Planets have no influence on solar activity!

Last Updated: Friday, September 6, 2013, 15:05

The planets can affect the solar activity on the sun by exerting tides but these effects are extremely tiny, just a few millimeters, in comparison to all other dynamical forces, a new research has claimed.

200 bn free-floating starless planets roam Milky Way

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 15:58

Scientists have found that planets with no parent star can be born freely, outside of an existing solar system - and there are 200 billion of them in our galaxy.

Now, people can name newly discovered planets

Last Updated: Monday, August 19, 2013, 16:14

Public will now be able to submit their own suggestions on what to call new discoveries in space, IAU, which is responsible for naming planets, stars and other celestial bodies, has announced.