This Space Telescope’s Entire Job Is to Search For Signs of Life On 20 Distant Planets

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...
Houston Public Media

A rare 'parade' of all 7 planets will move across the night sky this week

Sky gazers across the U.S. will have a chance to see an extraordinary celestial event on Friday as all of the planets in our solar system will appear in the evening sky. This phenomenon known as a ...

Researchers may have found the first exomoon

Almost all planets in our solar system have moons – why not exoplanets? Astronomers believe they have discovered the first ...
Space.com

4 rocky exoplanets found around Barnard's Star, one of the sun's nearest neighbors

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's Star's habitable zone. Scientists have confirmed the existence of four ...
Wired

Scientists Scan Mysterious Planet as It Drifts Through Space

Not every large object in space forms part of a solar system. There are some big objects that exist in isolation in space, without either being a star or orbiting one. One of these, SIMP 0136, wanders ...
CNET

See Six Planets Line Up in the Last Planet Parade For Three Years

Fresh off the excitement of the Perseids meteor shower is a chance to see six planets lined up in the sky at once. These events, colloquially known as planet parades, occur occasionally with the most ...