Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 12:55
NASA says it will try to fix its space telescope that hunts for planets outside our solar system.
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 11:36
A new study estimates that there may be twice the number of habitable planets than previously thought - thanks to new calculations that include the effect of clouds on alien worlds.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 19:12
The superhuman ability to move planets throughout the solar system at our will may sound far-fetched, but scientists say it`s not impossible.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013, 15:15
Planets with two suns - like Tatooine in the "Star Wars" movie series - may be more capable of supporting life than other planets, a new research has claimed.
Last Updated: Friday, June 7, 2013, 12:53
Stars have an alluring pull on planets, especially those in a class called hot Jupiters, which are gas giants that form farther from their stars before migrating inward and heating up.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 14:37
A highly unusual dwarf star and its powerful flares, is being studied, which may hold clues to the likelihood of life on other planets as well as to the behaviour of our Sun.
Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013, 22:46
Astronomy lovers will have another eye-catching pleasure this week as three planets - Venus, Jupiter and Mercury - will come very close to each other in a planetary conjunction.
Last Updated: Sunday, April 28, 2013, 12:04
A startling prediction made by a team of researchers has challenged existing chemical models and current understanding of planetary interiors.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 25, 2013, 12:39
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), set to be launched by NASA in 2018, will be capable of detecting oxygen and water in the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf.
Last Updated: Friday, April 19, 2013, 10:25
Scientists have discovered two Earth-like planets in the habitable orbit of a Sun-like star.
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 10:10
Astronomers have been able to obtain the first images of a dust belt - produced by colliding comets or asteroids - orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary system.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 14:07
Scientists have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy and they anticipate that their number may be up to a whopping 100 billion.
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