A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates. A massive planet ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." ...

Astronomers have recently discovered a massive exoplanet, Kepler-139f, hidden within a known star system. This Neptune-sized ...

The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a distant sun-like star.

L 98-59 f, an "exoplanet", lives in what’s called the star’s "habitable", temperate or "Goldilocks zone" — that’s the sweet ...

Ice crystals in Earth's atmosphere sometimes align just right to create various striking visual effects, from a halo around ...

Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA), a six-telescope interferometer, excels at ...

The stellar companion may help explain why the brightness of Betelgeuse, the red supergiant, is open to so much variation.

Kepler-139 f is a Neptune-like exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. The mass of this planet is 36 times that of Earth, which ...

Other researchers also analysed the same data using different statistical models and didn't find evidence for the presence of ...