In the search for extraterrestrial life, it makes sense to first look for rocky planets with an atmosphere, like Earth.

Being the coldest member of an absurdly hot category is a strange distinction, but when it comes to lava worlds, strange is ...

If you thought Luke Skywalker’s home planet, Tatooine, was a strange world with its two suns in the sky, imagine this: a planet where you’d either experience constant daylight or enjoy triple sunrises ...

In a system with two known planets, astronomers spotted something new: A small object transiting across the sun-sized star. This turned out to be another planet, which was extra hot and Earth-sized.

A recent study published in Nature discusses the confirmation of an exoplanetary system based on data collected in 2020. The system, known as HD 110067, possesses six planets whose orbits are in ...

An international team of researchers from the University of Liège (Belgium) and Monash University (Australia) has just published the results of the analysis of data from the SPHERE instrument of the ...

European astronomers this week announced the discovery of seven new planets orbiting other stars, bringing to 115 the total number of known extrasolar planets. Six of the new planets circle stars not ...

Beryllium, a rare element stars don't make, points to HD 129171 as a star that swallowed a planet worth at least 11 Earths of rock.