That red giant phase will see the sun swell up to ... telescope will use microlensing to hunt for extrasolar planets or "exoplanets." "There is a whole set of worlds that are now opening up ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

A strange planet discovered with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has astronomers confused. Despite getting relentlessly bombarded with radiation from its red giant parent star ...

That’s a relatively pleasant wind speed compared to a giant, puffy planet located around 500 lightyears away from Earth. Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a ...

This artist’s concept shows what the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b could look like. WASP-43 b is a Jupiter-sized planet roughly 280 light-years away, in the constellation Sextans.

When the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995 ... What’s more, the planet, nicknamed ‘51 Peg,’ was a gas giant the size of Jupiter that sat so close to its star, it took just four days ...

Three years later came news of the first known exoplanet, a Jupiter-like gas giant orbiting its star closer ... no larger than Mars—closely orbit the red dwarf star KOI-961 and are far too ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter" — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this intriguing exoplanet, which is a world beyond our solar system.

Scientists have discovered two “super-Earth” exoplanets, one of which is in its ... was found around a red dwarf star that’s around 100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus.

Many of these exoplanets are like nothing found in our solar system. The hot and ultra-hot Jupiters are prime examples of this, being gas giant planets many times the mass and size of Jupiter that ...

These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) orbit close to red dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than the sun, and which make up over 75% of the 200 billion stars in the ...