A newly discovered possible exoplanet some 1,500 light years away is being shredded by the intense heat of its parent star.

A few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing Earth-sized planets may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way.

Astrophysicists at a UK university have found a quartet of white dwarf stars which they say are in the process of consuming exoplanets that were once similar in composition to Earth.

New research suggests that billions of stars in our galaxy have captured rogue planets that once roamed interstellar space.

Funding for NASA's planet-seeking Kepler Mission, which was scheduled to expire in November, has been renewed for four more years, the US space agency announced on Wednesday.