"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." ...

"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." ...

Thousands of exoplanets have been found, but only a few stand out as truly Earth-like. These 16 may be the most promising ...

A recent study led by a York University professor introduces a theoretical framework to predict the evolution of hot rocky ...

An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four ...

The universe is far more than just a vast emptiness,it's an intricate, mind-boggling realm full of surprises. From the ...

What can lava planets, rocky exoplanets that are tidally locked and orbit so close to their stars that the intense heat melts ...

Espinoza is a leader in the new massive James Webb Space Telescope study of rocky worlds, specifically to find out if planets ...

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates. A massive planet ...

Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, ...

While the search for exoplanets has revealed more than 4,000 planets beyond our solar system, researchers question what may be looking back. Astronomers compiled a list of stars that could host ...