In the hunt for exoplanets, many seek out habitable worlds. There's comfort in discovering planets that remind us of ...

The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt ...

The tiny pebbles left over from a star's formation fed the growth of one of the strangest, wildest worlds humanity has ever ...

A team of international scientists recently published the discovery of nine new hot Jupiter exoplanets in The Astronomical ...

The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our Solar System. Methane indicates unexpected ...

Astronomers Spot a 'Highly Eccentric' Planet on Its Way to Becoming a Hot Jupiter July 17, 2024 — The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit ...

Astronomers have detected silicon monoxide gas in the atmosphere of a planet 850 lightyears from Earth, the first time the ...

On a quest to understand how planets are formed – and ultimately how Earth fits into the cosmic picture – astronomers have ...

Scientists like to refer to our planet as residing in the "Goldilocks zone," where it's neither too hot nor too cold, and ...