At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Saturn reigns supreme when it comes to the number of moons orbiting any solar system planet. Including the 128 ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune – so called sub-Neptunes – are the most common type of known exoplanet. It ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp.

Scientists are using powerful telescopes to study exoplanet atmospheres for signs of life. New missions could soon reveal ...

A new report explains a young star system where low-density planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes begin to form, based on new findings from the V1298 system ...

A four-planet system reveals remarkable insights about how planets form and how they change during their lifetime.

Black holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners. They are among the universe’s most extreme objects - and come in different sizes.

Scientists weighed newborn planets for the first time, revealing puffy worlds that will shrink into super-Earths and ...