The more we learn about other parts of our galaxy, the more we are intrigued with the possibility of finding life on other planets. In reality, that life would be nothing like our science fiction stories. That's exciting...

The vast majority of our movies about encounters with aliens involve extraterrestrials that come in somewhat of a humanoid shape and fairly the same size as humans. That makes it much easier to cast those roles. And scie...

It was only a couple of weeks ago that astronomy f...  ...k and fast (scientists have catalogued over 3,400 exoplanets ), and now we have planet LHS 1140b to get excited...  ...the coming years. Read more about this intriguing exoplanet

If there were any doubt that telescopes with the ability to see beyond our solar system would change everything, this is it. Planet GJ 1132b is 39 light years from earth, yet we are learning a lot about it. It is slightl...

NASA has announced that the Spitzer Space Telescop...  ...ir surfaces. The mass of the seventh and farthest exoplanet has not yet been estimated – scientists bel...  ...er and the principal investigator of the TRAPPIST exoplanet survey at the University of Liege, Belgium. "It i...

NASA's Kepler mission team has announced that the...  ...ng the discovery of 1,284 previously undiscovered exoplanets . Kepler is using a new statistical analysis metho...  ...st planetary announcement yet. Of the 5,000 or so exoplanets we know about, almost half have been discovered b...  ...ater to pool. With...

(Image: Artist’s Conception of the ring system by Ron Miller)Star J1407 is about 400 light years away from our solar system. 2 years ago, scientists discovered that one of the planets orbiting it has a ring system,...

Luke Skywalker's planet Tattooine has two suns that rise and fall close together. When Star Wars first came out, it seemed ridiculous that a planet could revolve around two stars at once, but as science fiction often goe...

Pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope introduce...  ...ages raise even more questions about the possible exoplanet

Image: University of Central Flo...  ...ing NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The exoplanet 33 light-years away (making it possibly...