It's remarkably similar to Earth.

Relative sizes of the newly discovered habitable-zone planets and Earth. Left to right: Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists' renditions). Image credit: ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...

An infrared image shows a brown dwarf discovered by astronomers using the W.M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea on Feb. 23, 2024. Data from both the observatory and telescope ...

NASA announced a new milestone in its search of the stars. It has now found more than 5,000 exoplanets -- those outside of our solar system. “It’s not just a number,” Jessie Christiansen, a researcher ...

Time-lapse footage of a newly discovered exoplanet as it makes its slow journey around two stars. To obtain the image of the planet, astronomers needed to remove the stars' glare. Two star icons mark ...

Any talk of new planets at the solar system’s edge inevitably brings Pluto back into the conversation, both scientifically and culturally. Pluto, once the ninth planet, was reclassified as a dwarf ...

The planet formed 50 million years after the dinosaurs died, making it incredibly young in cosmic terms. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

An “extra exceptional” Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the “huge” new world is six times the size of Jupiter despite only forming 50 million years ...

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