Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis, researcher at LMU's University Observatory Munich and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, has ...

One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

The first—and so far only—hint of the potential planet arrived in observations from NASA’s now retired Kepler space telescope ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

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

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 ...

Trained on data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting missions, the open-source ExoMiner++ deep learning model uses an advanced ...

The team of astronomers behind the find suggested it could help us better understand planet and moon formation in our solar system and beyond the Milky Way. The team was able to make the first-ever ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are not ...