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

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...

— -- Goldilocks, like most fairy tales, offers children a lesson and a happy ending. Whether a Goldilocks planet offers astronomers something similar still hangs up in the air, with the story's ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered a remarkable planetary system around the faint orange star WASP-132, featuring two exoplanets that couldn’t be more different. One is a rocky world that completes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are observing an Earth-like exoplanet that may contain water using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the space agency ...

Discover the fascinating journey of a planet that orbits a black hole. This video delves into the dynamics of celestial ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...