A team of international astronomers has uncovered what may be a gas giant planet forming around a distant young star. Using ...

New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

The breakthrough came using a cutting-edge observational method that detects unseen planets via subtle deviations in their ...

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Hunter (TESS) telescope has discovered the largest 'super-Earth' ever seen, 200 light-years away, dubbed TOI-1075b.

The search for Earth-like planets just reached a thrilling milestone with NASA’s discovery of 10 rocky worlds orbiting stars ...

A tiny sign revealed in April seemed like it might change the universe as we know it. Astronomers had detected just a hint, a ...

JWST detects silicon monoxide in WASP-121b’s atmosphere for the first t Methane was found on the nightside, indicating strong vertical atmosphe WASP-121b likely migrated inward from a colder, distant ...

Kepler-725c is roughly 2,472 light years from Earth, circling a G9V star in about 207.5 days. Its path brings it into a ...

Chinese and German scientists have utilized the Transit Timing Variation technique to locate an exoplanet super-Earth for the ...

Not only is Pluto a planet, but it’s also more of another Earth than any other. It’s the most planet-like planet. Mike Brown: I have an attachment to Pluto. Growing up, it was this weird ...

The newly discovered planet orbits a Sun-like star and might support liquid water, but don’t pack your bags just yet.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.