NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during ...

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(CNN) – Astronomers have discovered a rare family of six planets about 100 light years from Earth. The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a ...

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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. All planets in the Milky Way may be formed by the same ...

A new study claims to have detected evidence of a planet outside of the Milky Way. Not everyone is convinced. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, ...

Our galaxy has planets aplenty. Our sun possesses at least eight of them, and in recent years, we’ve learned that most other stars have some, too. But according to a new simulation of star behavior, a ...