Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.

Learn more about brown dwarfs, the cosmic misfits that blur the line between planet and star.

Coel Hellier has received research council grants for the discovery of exoplanets. Barnard’s Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is ...

Look up into the night. What do you see? For thousands of years, people all over the world have been enchanted by the great theater that is our sky. We watch in awe of the majesty of the stars. To me, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Here in the Solar System, we can watch our star's eight planets orbit ...