The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

NASA has discovered a new super-Earth that has a year only lasting a few hours. The exoplanet K2-141b, was found very close to its orange sun-like star, and has an orbital period of less than one ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

The earth (and humanity) would be very different without our smaller red neighbor. In A Nutshell Computer simulations show ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to play all kinds of havoc on their orbiting circumbinary planets. When you ...

HD 189733 b orbits so close to its star that distance almost stops mattering. The planet was logged in 2005, one of many ...