A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

Siraj’s Planet Y search started about a year ago when he was trying to find out whether the shape of the Kuiper Belt is flat.

The celestial body is the youngest transiting planet found to date. Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange giant planet orbiting a tiny star - and nobody knows how it got there. The star is a distant red dwarf known as TOI-6894 which is just a fifth the mass of our own ...

Astronomers spotted a young planet, WISPIT 2b, forming within a dusty ring around its star system, offering clues about the ...

In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is ...

Researchers noticed the planet while searching through data collected by TESS. “TESS finds a planet by looking at a star, and it measures how bright the star is continuously for weeks,” Crossfield ...

This discovery was made by two of NASA’s most celebrated telescopes. This illustration provided by Dan Durda shows the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with a hypothesized moon. On Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, two ...

For the first time, a planet has been discovered orbiting a white dwarf, also known as a dead star. This exoplanet, a planet outside of our solar system, is the size of Jupiter and it's known as WD ...