Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

The planet, recently renamed BD+05 4868 Ab, is losing its outer layer piece by piece, with a comet-like trail of dust left ...

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

Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking ...

The strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a planet outside our solar system has been found by a team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge.

Last week astronomers reported hints of biological activity on a distant planet, but a re-analysis of their data suggests the claimed molecules may not be there at all ...