Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...

Astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 planets beyond our own solar system. Here's how — and how we'll find even more.

A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, ...

Planets change orbit shape around Neptune’s size. Metal-rich stars help giant planets form. Eccentric orbits suggest chaotic ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate the atmosphere of a cosmic body that is either a "failed ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory released this update on researchers' use of high performance computing resources to ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered an exoplanet that defies the usual pace of time. WASP-121b, located 900 ...

Gaia unexpectedly discovered a giant exoplanet and a puzzling brown dwarf, challenging planetary formation theories and ...