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

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

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

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

New observations are the first direct evidence of planets influencing their stars rather than just passively orbiting them ...

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

Scientists are turning to simulations and experiments to understand how life-indicating molecules behave, so we might know ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rare, retrograde-orbiting planet in a tight binary star system. Most stars throughout the Universe are part of binary or multiple star systems. In these ...

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 ...

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

L 98-59 is a small red dwarf located just 35 light-years from Earth. In 2019, NASA's TESS space telescope found that it hosts ...

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