Astronomers at the University of Warwick have validated over 100 exoplanets, including 31 newly detected planets, using a new ...

A University of Kansas researcher in physics and astronomy can now claim to be a star in her own right — at least within the annals of KU history. Postdoctoral researcher Hayley Beltz was announced ...

Astronomers have spotted two giant planets forming around a young star—offering a stunning glimpse of how our Solar System ...

NASA and a team from the University of Chicago have found an odd, lemon-shaped exoplanet in deep space that might be ...

Some planets do not orbit stars at all. These rogue worlds drift through interstellar space after being ejected from their ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, only a ...

These three exoplanets are among the least dense ever found, and all attempts to probe their atmospheres have been blocked by ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...

A bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size and orbit are forcing scientists to rethink how planets form.

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Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, a team of scientists have observed two giant gas planets ...