Relying on information from NASA's TESS telescope, astronomers Edward Bryant from the University of Warwick and Vincent Van ...
Astronomers have just confirmed one of the strangest kinds of worlds imaginable, a planet drifting through the galaxy with no star of its own roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth. Instead of circling ...
Artist's conception of the four planets around a young star observed in this research. The puffy planets may be losing their ...
Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common kind in the galaxy, but because our solar system lacks such a planet, scientists don’t know much about how they form. Astronomers ...
One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet ...
Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...
The newly discovered TOI 451 planetary system features three planets orbiting the same sun. CREDIT Illustration courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center A newly discovered planetary system will ...