Astronomers have identified an ultra-light exoplanet orbiting the star TOI-1453, located 250 light-years from Earth. While ...

Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

A new study is challenging the science of the formation of sub-Neptunian planets, which are the most common in the Milkey Way ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...