Using data from NASA’s Kepler mission, astronomers have discovered three small planets orbiting a red dwarf star called KOI-961.

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected icy bodies raining down in a solar system at Eta Corvi, a star in the constellation of Corvus (the Crow).

The telescope in La Silla Observatory in Chile has discovered the most exoplanets. Exoplanets are planets outside of our solar system.

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has identified signs of flat carbon flakes called graphene. This is the first time graphene has been detected in space.

Scientists had predicted that there are planets wandering through space alone.

ESA’s (European Space Agency) Herschel space observatory has been studying galaxies that are very large. Some have masses over 300 billion times that of the sun.

The Andromeda galaxy can be seen with the naked eye as an elongated cloud located in the direction of the constellation Andromeda (the Chained Maiden).

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible light snapshot of a planet circling another star. A planet outside our solar system is called an extrasolar planet, or an exoplanet.

Scientists believe the universe is expanding in all directions and has been ever since the Big Bang. Stars and galaxies have been observed moving away in all directions.

Organic molecules have been detected on a planet in another solar system. Organic molecules are necessary for the chemical reactions to form life as we know it.