The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has found strong evidence that massive planets have recently formed around four very young stars,...
HD 106906b, a giant exoplanet discovered last year sitting at a large distance from its parent star, may have been kicked out of its birthplace in a process...
A team of astronomers has captured a photo of an extrasolar planet in the making.
Left: composite image of the young planetary system LkCa 15. Right: zoomed...
The atmosphere of Kepler-438b is thought to have been stripped away as a result of radiation emitted from the planet’s violent parent star, says a team...
Using observations from the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), a high-precision spectrograph on ESO’s 3.6-m telescope at La Silla...
Astronomers have detected layers of clouds – made up of hot dust and droplets of molten iron – on a planet-like object known as PSO J318.5338–22.8603...
A team of scientists from the University of Washington and the University of Toronto is the first to simulate 3D exotic clouds in the atmosphere of an...
Spiral-arm-like features seen around two newborn stars, SAO 206462 and MWC 758, may be evidence for the presence of giant, unseen planets, says a team...
When the Solar System was born about 4.6 billion years ago only 8% of the potentially habitable terrestrial exoplanets that will ever form in the Universe...
A team of U.S. astronomers has made a surprising discovery using data collected by NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission: a star called WASP-47, a previously known...
A team of astronomers from the University of Washington and NASA Astrobiology Institute’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory has created the ‘Habitability...
Earth-mass exoplanets orbiting close to low-mass parent stars likely have magnetic fields that protect them from stellar radiation, says a duo of astronomers...
A series of images taken with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) on the Gemini South telescope in Chile shows an extrasolar gas giant called Beta Pictoris...
A fundamental question in astrobiology is: whether life can be transported between extrasolar planets, planetary systems? A team of U.S. astrophysicists...
The mineral diversity of Earth is unique and could not be duplicated anywhere in the cosmos. That’s according to a group of researchers, led by Dr Robert...
Astronomers using the Gemini Planet Imager have discovered a young Jupiter-like planet orbiting a nearby star known as 51 Eridani.
An artistic conception...
A team of astronomers from Israel, Europe, Korea and the United States has announced the discovery of a circumbinary gas giant in the habitable zone of...
In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have discovered that planetary rings, such as those orbiting Saturn,...
