Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

Pollard A quartet of Earth-like worlds, each about 20% to 30% the ... the telescope detected subtle shifts in the movement of ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Researchers believe they've found evidence that a white dwarf may have torn a Jupiter-sized planet apart. A new study used ... only 650 light-years from Earth - might have destroyed a nearby ...