In a surprising twist to our understanding of exoplanetary systems, astronomers have uncovered three Earth-sized planets ...

The discovery of a Neptune-sized exoplanet around a massive star could explain why such planets are rarely found. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

When NASA's next-generation space observatory launches in a few years, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will expand the search for exoplanets as well as rogue planets, or worlds that travel ...

A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reveals an impressive phenomenon concerning ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants. Using NASA’s TESS telescope to study nearly half a million stars, scientists ...

Astronomers have found six new worlds that look like planets, but formed like stars. These so-called rogue worlds are between five and 15 times the mass of Jupiter, and one of them may even host the ...

In the Star Wars movies fictional planets are covered with forests, oceans, deserts, and volcanoes. But new models from a team of MIT, NASA, and Carnegie scientists begin to describe an even wider ...

Using data from NASA’s TESS mission, scientists can estimate the size (radius) of potential planets orbiting distant stars. However, to verify that these objects are truly planets and not low-mass ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion ...

There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but none have passed the threshold and been accepted as confirmed. But they must ...

(CNN) — When NASA’s next-generation space observatory launches in a few years, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will expand the search for exoplanets as well as rogue planets, or worlds that ...