A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a new, exotic class of exoplanets: super-Earths formed at high ...

New research tracks young planets around a nearby star, showing how large, gas-rich worlds shrink over time to become the most common planets in the galaxy ...

2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...

Scientists have searched for life beyond Earth for decades. We study exoplanets, send signals into space, and scan the sky ...

The launch window for a small satellite developed in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) opened this week at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...

The discovery of exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b reveals how unusual other worlds can be. This exoplanet takes just 7.8 hours to ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

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

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

Universe Today reports on a new telescope proposal that could help astronomers detect Earth-sized exomoons, explaining current limits, future technology, and why moons around distant planets matter ...

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