There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Learn about new observations that reveal an exoplanet is destroying itself by cuddling up to its host star, in an ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

EXCLUSIVE: Scientists say the discovery of a Jupiter-like planet promises to further understanding of planetary systems.