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

The team detected a huge gas giant dwelling in the protoplanetary disk of MP Mus, which had been previously hidden. This ...

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

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new exoplanet ...

Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers ...

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

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 ...

New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions ...

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

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 ...