Scientists have been looking for extra-solar planets for decades, but only recently, with better equipment and improved techniques, have they finally unveiled new and unusual planets. Since 1995, over ...

In January of 2005, astronomers discovered a distant object larger than Pluto orbiting the sun. However, since there is no authoritative definition for the term planet, disagreement exists between ...

Proxima Centauri, the sun’s nearest neighbor among the stars, is 25 trillion miles away from Earth. Even if it had a family of planets, no telescope could reveal them. According to Sir James Jeans, a ...

YAHOO.COM - You may have seen pictures of our planet from space, but never quite like this. A new NOVA show on PBS, "Earth from Space," features amazing images captured by satellites used to observe ...