In a landmark achievement, astronomers have identified a super-Earth exoplanet only 18 light-years away that meets all the ...

Researchers present strong evidence for a planet circling two brown dwarfs on a near polar path. The orbit is tilted almost ...

Recent astronomical observations have revealed a startling reality: aging stars are far more destructive to their orbiting ...

The quiet fear of losing your home is usually a human story, but in the sky, entire worlds may face something similar. As ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

Scientists are observing an Earth-like exoplanet that may contain water using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the space agency said in a news release. The exoplanet, known as TRAPPIST-1 e, orbits ...

The newly discovered exoplanet HD 135344 Ab can be seen as a yellow dot on the right side of the image. It was measured in 2019 (2x), 2021, and 2022. The empty purple circle with the star in the ...

At a young age, we're told how the sun warms Earth and makes life possible. That idea sticks with most of us for life. But ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...