When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. There are currently more than 5,800 known planets beyond the solar system. Artist Martin Vargic ...

We have discovered 3663 (and counting) planets around distant stars. About 50 are in the ‘Goldilocks zone’ which supports liquid water. A new study has whittled the number believed habitable down to ...

Scientists have added a whopping 301 newly confirmed exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly validated exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. The ...

NASA has revealed that there are 6,000 known planets outside the solar system. This report marks a further step in the search for exoplanets - planets that lie beyond the Sun's orbit. NASA's Exoplanet ...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — There's new hope for people who still believe that Pluto is a planet more than a decade after the International Astronomical Union (IAU) reclassified the object as a dwarf ...

Less than 20 years after discovering the first world beyond our solar system, astronomers have bagged alien planet number 700. As of today (Nov. 18), the tally stands at 702 exoplanets, according to ...

Jupiter is now departing the solar glare and joins Venus, Mars and Saturn at dawn. Connected together, the four planets create a "rising curve" of visual enjoyment. The numbers indicate the separation ...