Since the 1990s, humanity has discovered some truly bizarre exoplanets. Very hot, very big, orbiting multiple stars, or at a ...

"This was an absolute surprise. It's extremely different from what we expected." ...

An “extra exceptional” Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the “huge” new world ...

Discovered in archival data, the newly identified exoplanet formed after the dinosaurs went extinct. In a finding that echoes ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

The planet formed 50 million years after the dinosaurs died, making it incredibly young in cosmic terms.

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

The exoplanet, discovered by Northwestern University astronomers, orbits two suns exactly like Luke Skywalker's fictional ...

Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...