A newly-discovered planet named Enaiposha, GJ 1214 b, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a ...

A Galway-based student has led researchers to the discovery of a new planet after originally thinking she had spotted a large clump of dust. Chloe Lawlor, a PhD student at the Centre for Astronomy at ...

A newly discovered planet orbiting the nearby star GJ 887 is being hailed as one of the most promising candidates in the search for extraterrestrial life. This super-Earth, with a mass over six times ...

A team of scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences in Princeton, New Jersey, might have found a new dwarf planet, potentially leading to more evidence of a theoretical ...

Arizona – and Flagstaff specifically – has long considered itself the home of Pluto. After all, Percival Lowell, the namesake of the state's most prominent observatory, was not only one of the first ...