Billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy have captured rogue alien planets that once cruised freely through interstellar space, a new study suggests. Many wandering alien worlds, which were ejected ...

Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these ...

Astronomers may have found a way to detect alien worlds embedded in rings of dust around distant stars. Newborn stars often have clouds of leftover gas and dust around them that condense into rings ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...