A breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrial life may be on the horizon as astronomers have uncovered 85 potential planets outside ... to those found within our own Solar System.

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Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

A new type of exoplanet has been discovered: Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b. Long heralded as a mini-Neptune, new observations have indicated that it is a member of a category never seen before ...

She mapped our solar ... on the inner planets' habitability. They found some changes in obliquity—Mars "wobbled" a bit more, Simpson said—but overall, the inner solar system remained habitable.

Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may have conditions suitable for life. The planet is outside our solar system and has a mass six times greater than that of Earth.

Further building up their weather map, the team also found that the poles are ... measure only the mass and the radius of planets outside the solar system. Today, telescopes like ESO's VLT already ...