"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation ...

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of ...

NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 exoplanets. This milestone highlights the diversity of planetary systems.

Some planets may be soot-rich rather than water-based. Atmosphere studies will be key to understanding their true nature. Astronomers generally consider water worlds to be among the most common types ...

But it’s not just looks. Rocky composition, general size, orbital behaviors—a lot of those qualities can be the same on both ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to play all kinds of havoc on their orbiting circumbinary planets. A ...

This content was originally published on Space. A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away. A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...