New Planets

How do you make an Earth-like planet? Astronomers have found evidence that the recipe for Earth also applies to terrestrial exoplanets orbiting distant stars.

Researchers say alien worlds may be even more habitable than Earth-like planets, what they say might be called "superhabitable" worlds.

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft makes a comeback with the discovery of the first exoplanet found using its new mission -- K2.

For the first time, a team of astronomers has detected a super-Earth around a Sun-like star using a ground-based telescope, raising the prospects of characterizing the many worlds to be revealed by upcoming space missions.

Researchers calculated that the observational satellite Gaia could detect as many as 21,000 exoplanets during its five-year mission.

Astronomers have captured the best image ever of planet formation around an infant star.

Astronomers have detected exozodiacal light close to the habitable zones around nine nearby stars. The phenomenon may pose an obstacle to the direct imaging of Earth-like planets in the future.

For their latest discovery, Yale astronomers and the Planet Hunter program have found a low-mass, low-density planet with a punctuality problem.

New optical device designed to measure gravitational pull of a planet should speed the search for Earth-like exoplanets.

Our view of other solar systems just got a little more familiar, with the discovery of a planet 25,000 light-years away that resembles our own Uranus.