"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

American space agency NASA announced the launch of an improved software called ExoMiner++ that is used to detect exoplanet ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is ...

No planets cooler than about 35.33 degrees Fahrenheit had ever been detected. An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to ...