Astronomers Identified a Lemon-Shaped Planet Displaying a Feature 'Unlike Anything Observed Before' ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

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

Despite its unmemorable name, J2322-2650 is a strange system. A Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbits an energetic neutron star, which constantly bombards it with gamma rays. Now, a team of astronomers has ...

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

— -- Goldilocks, like most fairy tales, offers children a lesson and a happy ending. Whether a Goldilocks planet offers astronomers something similar still hangs up in the air, with the story's ...

Discover the fascinating journey of a planet that orbits a black hole. This video delves into the dynamics of celestial ...

In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

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 ...

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

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 ...