NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. All planets in the Milky Way may be formed by the same ...

For the very first time astronomers may have detected a planet outside of the Milky Way—and it could be the size of Saturn. The so-called “extroplanet” is in the Whirlpool Galaxy, also called M51, a ...

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Astronomers have discovered what may be the first planet ever observed in another galaxy. Until now, astronomers had only found planets that are beyond our solar system yet still within the Milky Way ...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the ...

A new study claims to have detected evidence of a planet outside of the Milky Way. Not everyone is convinced. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, ...

Look up at the night sky and you’ll see stars, sure. But you’re also seeing planets — billions and billions of them. At least. That’s the conclusion of a new study by astronomers at the California ...

Astronomers may have discovered a planet in a distant galaxy. Astronomers identified the possible exoplanet, M51-ULS-1b, because its transit blocked X-ray radiation from the remnant of a dead star — ...

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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Jacco van Loon, Astrophysicist and Director of Keele ...

A stellar nursery in the Small Magellanic Cloud — a tiny galaxy that orbits our Milky Way — is surprisingly dusty. All rocky planets start as dust grains floating in space. That means the amount of ...