In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

Scientists have discovered an exoplanet 140 light-years away that's rapidly disintegrating as it orbits its star every 30 ...

About 140 light-years from Earth, there is a planet that is rapidly disintegrating. The crumbling world is roughly the mass [ ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planet orbiting at a 90-degree angle around two brown dwarfs—marking the first evidence of ...

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

A new study led by astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has revealed that planets ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

In the quest to find approximately Earth-sized planets located in the "Goldilocks zone" i.e. neither too hot nor too cold) ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...