Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

The cosmic butterfly has also produced plenty of PAHs – large hydrocarbon molecules that could play a key early role in ...

NASA’s relentless pursuit of the unknown has led to the development of groundbreaking exoplanet-hunting technology. With its ...

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...

Scientists have developed a new technique that could help them understand "polka dot" stars using the transits of exoplanets.

According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius of approximately 1.8R⊕, placing it within the intriguing radius valley area ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it ...

Astronomers sometimes find conflicting data when trying to answer a question. This is a normal part of the scientific process ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

Dark matter could gather at the heart of Jupiter-sized worlds, eventually creating a black hole that eats its way out of its ...

RIT astrophysical sciences and technology Ph.D. student uses NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to study exoplanet being shrunk by its host star.

While lava worlds represent an exciting new frontier in exoplanet science, much remains unknown about their dynamics, interiors and evolutionary paths. "Lava planets are in such extreme orbital ...