Through international collaboration, a team of astronomers has confirmed two exoplanets and found hints of a third exoplanet ...

Researchers present strong evidence for a planet circling two brown dwarfs on a near polar path. The orbit is tilted almost ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of the exoplanet Gaia-4b orbiting its star, tracing the shape of its orbit ...

A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the astronomy world. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have detected ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of the red dwarf star TOI-6894 (foreground) and its giant planet orbiting ...

This giant exoplanet zips around the star remnant, which is about the size of Earth, in a very close orbit every 34 hours. By comparison, Mercury is the closest planet to the sun in our solar system ...

How did this red dwarf star 240 light-years away end up with a gas giant planet? Credit: University of Warwick / Mark Garlick illustration Astronomers have discovered a world outside the solar system ...

Three hundred and forty light years from Earth, there burns a triple star system lighting a planet unlike any other world we've ever seen. What might you see, if you could go there and look up at its ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of gas and dust surrounding a young star. Earlier observations of this star, ...

Astronomers from Keele University in the UK have utilized NASA's planet-hunting TESS telescope to investigate a ...

Like a family in which short parents have tall children, a tiny red dwarf star is defying our understanding of how planets form by existing alongside a giant exoplanet. Giant planets are not rare per ...