CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

NASA has found a new “Super Earth” planet just 154 light-years away that’s sending out a strange, repeating signal. The planet, named TOI‑1846 b, is about twice as wide as Earth and around four times ...

A new, unseen planet named Kepler-139f has been discovered in the Kepler-139 star system. It's twice as massive as Neptune!

This makes it 35 times the mass of Earth and a year on its planet lasts 355 days, the discoverers noted in their findings published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The planet was detected after ...

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

What can ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanets teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical | Space ...

Exploring the quest for alien life through Bayesian analysis, emphasizing the importance of asking the right questions in ...

A year on the alien world is only a few Earth days.

A new analysis of exoplanets has shown interstellar contamination from nearby stars could change where to search for ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...