Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant exoplanets form and what their atmospheres can look like, ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward ...

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...

Learn how researchers may have discovered an exomoon about 635 light-years away orbiting gas giant exoplanet WASP-4b. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life ...

Giant planets are not rare per se — after all, we have four in our own solar system. Such large worlds are, however, rarely ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

A newly discovered gas giant, called TOI-6894b, orbiting a low-mass red dwarf star defies existing models of planet formation ...

A small red dwarf star is challenging our knowledge of how planets form by coexisting with a massive exoplanet, much like a ...

New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple ...

A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars ...