Cloud or haze layers in the upper atmospheres of extrasolar planets may make them appear bigger than they really are, a study led by Dr. Helmut Lammer...
Astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope have found a Jupiter-like exoplanet orbiting around a pair of Sun-like stars.
Comparison of the relative...
Hot, Jupiter-sized extrasolar planets often have cloud or haze layers in their atmospheres, and this may prevent astronomers from detecting atmospheric...
Our Sun, in its youth some 4.5 billion years ago, ‘stole’ Planet Nine from a passing star system, says a team of European astronomers led by Lund University...
A team of scientists led by Rice University astronomer Christopher Johns-Krull has discovered a giant planet orbiting a very young star about 450 light-years...
In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org preprint), a team of astronomers at Cornell University has modeled the locations of the habitable...
The Kepler-223 multi-planet system is trapped in an orbital configuration that the Solar System’s four gas giants may have broken from in its early history,...
A team of astronomers from NASA and Princeton University has confirmed that 1,284 extrasolar objects by NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft are indeed...
According to a team of scientists led by Prof. Sara Seager from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gases emitted by alien life forms on habitable...
Earlier this year California Institute of Technology scientists Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown presented strong evidence for Planet Nine, a hypothesized...
A team of astronomers led by Dr. Michaël Gillon from the University of Liège has discovered three Earth-sized exoplanets around a nearby ultracool dwarf...
An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the youngest and brightest free-floating, planet-like objects within relatively close proximity...
A new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that the circulation in fresh water or salty oceans on terrestrial...
An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter in a rare triple-star system.
This artist’s impression shows...
New images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveal finest details in the protoplanetary disk around the young, Sun-like star...
New observations of HD 80606b raise questions about origins of so-called hot Jupiters, a class of short-period gas giants with a mass similar to Jupiter’s,...
