Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

Early sci-fi exoplanets were often simple Earth-like worlds, but as science advanced, so did their realism. From the desert planet Arrakis in Dune to the bizarre gas giant moons in Avatar, fictional ...

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 ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.