The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

Learn why the planet, BD+05 4868 Ab, is only the fourth such discovered and will disappear in one to two million years.

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

Scientists have discovered a planet that is literally falling apart as it orbits its star. Located about 140 light-years from ...

In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

Remember those claims that signs of life may have been detected on an exoplanet? Scientists have been skeptical about the claim, and now new, independent research is adding to that skepticism.

Scientists have discovered an exoplanet 140 light-years away that's rapidly disintegrating as it orbits its star every 30 ...

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

The findings in the study were made via microlensing, an observational effect that occurs when the presence of mass warps the ...

Researchers came to the conclusion that super-Earths can exist as far from their host star as our gas giants are from the sun ...