In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

How can astronomers determine if an exoplanet has water based on Earth’s geological composition? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers led ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

“Hydrogen sulfide is a major molecule that we didn’t know was there,” said Dr. Guangwei Fu, who is an assistant research scientist at Johns Hopkins University and lead author of the study. “We ...

These days, researchers commonly discover exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. But sometimes there’s a special discovery, like an exoplanet right in our backyard — and that’s the case with ...

Not so long ago, we lived in a universe with only a small number of known planets, all of them orbiting our Sun. But a new raft of discoveries marks a scientific high point: More than 5,000 planets ...