Until now, the alien white-hot worlds of exoplanets have been depicted as circular, but new research has revealed the true ...

Exomoons, Brown Dwarfs, and Our Ongoing Quest Astronomers have been hunting for exomoons around exoplanets for a while now, ...

Approximately 63 light-years from Earth lies a planetary system so young that it's less than 1 percent as old as our solar system. It is called Beta Pictoris, and—as far as astronomers have ...

Astronomers have discovered exoplanets — worlds orbiting other stars — in a wide range of sizes, masses and ages. That includes some planets that are very young, still forming in the disks of debris ...

For the first time, scientists have spotted radio waves from an exoplanet. Astronomer Yvette Cendes knows what you’re thinking: “When people see ‘radio signal from an exoplanet,’ they think aliens,” ...

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether Earth is truly unique. By Natalie Wolchover Natalie is a Pulitzer Prize winning ...

Scientists have uncovered a new "mega-Earth" in extrasolar space, an unusually dense, rocky exoplanet. Exoplanet GJ 523b, located beyond our solar system, is 2.5 times Earth's width and holds 23 times ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Seven Earth doppelgängers circle the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one of the most astonishing ...

Humans discovered the first exoplanet in 1992 and have since found approximately 6,000 other planets from outside our solar system. Not once have those researchers found a moon orbiting any of those ...

Scientists have discovered a rocky planet that is likely to have an atmosphere — and could be a host for life. “It’s been a major goal in the field of exoplanets to find atmospheres on rocky ...

For the first time, astronomers have detected an atmosphere around a rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby star. Such planets have long been considered the best places in the galaxy ...

For students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, fog is an all-too-familiar dynamic that shrouds and ebbs from campus over the course of a day. But while working toward his Ph.D. in astronomy ...