NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed the existence of a completely new type of planet. By analyzing the previously identified world GJ 1214b -- an Earth-like superplanet located outside of our ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of alien planet -- a steamy waterworld that is larger than Earth but smaller than Uranus. The standard-bearer for this new class of exoplanet is called GJ 1214b, ...

When it comes to looking for life elsewhere in the universe, we tend to be very Earth-centric: We look for planets that are similar to our own, assuming that life elsewhere will be similar to us and ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) telescope have used a new detection technique to discover an unusual planet that orbits two stars. The planet TIC 172900988b has ...

A new paper is suggesting that the most common type of planet out there is what scientists are calling a super earth. Patrick Jones (@Patrick_E_Jones) has the details. A new paper is suggesting that ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of planet -- a rocky world weighing 17 times as much as Earth. Theorists believed such a world couldn't form because anything so hefty would grab hydrogen gas as ...

Scientists have found evidence of extraterrestrial clouds blanketing two of the most common types of planets in our Milky Way galaxy, NASA officials say. Two teams of researchers used the Hubble Space ...