Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond the solar system that orbits its twin parent stars closer than any ever seen ...

The most remarkable thing about this investigation is the fact that the helium leaking from WASP-121b forms two distinct ...

An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world ...

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

After cataloging thousands of worlds beyond our solar system, astronomers are now closing in on a far rarer prize: a moon ...

What can a rocky molten exoplanet with an atmosphere teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what ...

To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." ...

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 ...