"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis, researcher at LMU's University Observatory Munich and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, has ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

Trained on data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting missions, the open-source ExoMiner++ deep learning model uses an advanced ...

The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

The team of astronomers behind the find suggested it could help us better understand planet and moon formation in our solar system and beyond the Milky Way. The team was able to make the first-ever ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...