Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

I’m sure Kepler, the man, would be delighted to learn that a telescope named in his honor measured the subtle shapes of orbits of Earth-size planets around other stars.” ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

The data was gathered from the deepest-ever survey of NGC1333, a star-forming cluster located about 1,000 light-years from Earth. The newly discovered planets are among the lightest ever detected and ...

There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. Astronomers used the powerful ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...

Researchers discovered a planet-forming disk that lasted 30 million years. This challenges previous estimates of 10 million ...