"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

As with many space telescope missions, Kepler's dataset is open to the public. NASA maintains a database ... indicated something different—a planet passing in front of them.

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Astronomers discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared ...

The first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet.

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on ...

They then compared the occurrence rates of these planets using data from NASA's TESS, or Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, for the younger population and from Kepler for the older population.