Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always show the same face to their star.

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet should be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water. A new study argues that ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

A sizzling exoplanet caught by the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding its atmosphere and leaving behind two gigantic helium tails.

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

What effects can an exoplanet orbiting close to its star have on the former’s atmosphere? This is what a recent study ...

Four researchers from the University of Oxford have been honoured in the Royal Astronomical Society’s (RAS) 2026 Awards.

A layer of molten rock deep inside some rocky planets may be doing more than shaping their interiors. New research points to ...

Small but mighty, the red planet — our celestial neighbor — has made Earth’s climate what it is today. Mars’ gravitational ...

How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...