In new research, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how more than 200 known exoplanets are likely much ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

What methods can astronomers use to identify exoplanets orbiting within a young exoplanetary system’s disc of dust and gas ...

New research from University of California, Irvine suggests over 200 known exoplanets may be significantly larger than ...

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

Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz made a groundbreaking discovery: the first exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star .

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

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 ...

Scientists have scored a pristine view of a pair of exotic worlds orbiting a star more than 300 light-years away — one with sand-like clouds and another surrounded in space by moon-making material.

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes ...

Investigating exoplanets has to happen from afar because with current technology, we can’t reach them. Telescopes can help determine what the conditions might be like on exoplanets, ...