Astronomers are uncovering new insights into exoplanetary atmospheres, and a recent study on WASP-107 b has turned conventional models on their heads. This distant planet, with its incredibly low ...

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

Some exoplanets have characteristics totally alien to our Solar System. Hot Jupiters are one such type. They can have orbital periods of less than 10 days and surface temperatures that can climb to ...

Although exoplanet science is on firm ground now ... “The planet was just so weird,” says Charbonneau, now the Fred Kavli Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard University.

In October 1995, after decades of serious effort, astronomers announced the first discovery of a planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

Astronomers may have inadvertently complicated the mystery of how strange "roasting marshmallow ... the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries.

Artist’s rendition of a variety of exoplanets featured in the new NASA TESS-Keck Survey Mass Catalog, the largest homogenous analysis of TESS planets released by any survey thus far.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The search for exoplanets—worlds that orbit stars other than our sun—may be focused on discovering another Earth ...