Located 446 light-years from Earth, this planet, dubbed 'HD 143811 b', orbits a 'binary system' where two stars swirl around ...

TOI-561 b is about 1.4 times the size of Earth and completes one orbit around its star in less than 11 hours, placing it in ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny star, but claim they "don't really understand" how this cosmic mystery happened. The planet, called TOI-6894b, was found orbiting a red dwarf ...

A stunning discovery by scientists makes the existence of planet nine seem far likelier THE QUEST to find the mysterious planet nine has just been given a major boost – thanks to the discovery of a ...

A rare planet has been discovered after it "photobombed" a mission by the European Space Agency. A team of researchers was exploring the Nu2 Lupi planetary system, just 48 light years away from Earth, ...

A new planet has been identified, named WISPIT 2b. It is believed to be about five million-years-old and most likely a gas giant similar in size to Jupiter. A gas giant is a large planet mostly ...

Researchers analysed two decades of observations to confirm the discovery of planet HD 20794 d (Gabriel Perez Diaz, SMM (IAC)/PA) Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may have ...

The discovery of a planet thats more than 10 times heavier than Earth has prompted researchers to rethink everything they know about the Solar System The planet more than 13 times heavier than Earth ...

Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting around a dead white dwarf star roughly 2,000 light years from Earth. The revelation was made possible by astronomers, who found evidence of a disc of ...

Astronomers say the 310-mile 'dwarf planet' could be packed with ice and sits so far away that it could take a millennia to orbit the Sun just once ASTRONOMERS have today announced the discovery of ...

Scientific convention states there are eight planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. On August 24, 2006, Pluto ceased to be recognised as the ...