Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

University of North Carolina researchers have recently discovered a baby exoplanet that could challenge our current understanding of how planets form in newly-minted solar systems. Designated IRAS ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

NASA technology discovered a “super-Earth” exoplanet emitting “strange signals.” Rating: Mostly True (About this rating?) What's True: Scientists using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ...

Astronomers announced Wednesday they have discovered a massive planet orbiting a tiny star, a bizarre pairing that has stumped scientists. Most of the stars across the Milky Way are small red dwarfs ...

Astronomers have detected a massive, lonely world drifting through the darkness without a star to call home. This ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Galway, has hailed the "remarkable discovery" of a newly detected planet, WISPIT 2b. Estimated to be just five ...

Using observations from both ground-based telescopes and space instruments, they were able to measure the planet's size and ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

The European Southern Observatory said the discovery as "the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings" Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She ...