One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or ...

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that connection measurable. Future transit-timing and atmospheric observations ...

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

Learn why only 14 out of over 6,000 exoplanets orbit two stars, and how Einstein’s general theory of relativity may be to blame.

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

EXPERTS have spotted a potentially habitable new planet that might be “remarkably similar to Earth”. But there is one chilly catch – scientists believe temperatures may below ...

Space experts have identified a potentially habitable new planet in the solar system, located around 150 light-years away. Find out more here.

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

Stargazers are about to have a chance to spot Saturn and the moon sharing a section of the night sky in what's known as a conjunction. Here's when.

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