An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

As atmospheric observations of exoplanets become increasingly precise, it is more important than ever to correctly account ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around a star like our sun—something long theorized but never observed until now.

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

Three celestial bodies will meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the ...

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...