Astronomers at the University of Warwick have validated over 100 exoplanets, including 31 newly detected planets, using a new artificial intelligence tool applied to data from NASA's Transiting ...

Astronomers have spotted two giant planets forming around a young star—offering a stunning glimpse of how our Solar System ...

In 2024, researchers reported another far-off world that smells like rotten eggs. HD 189733b, some 64 light-years from Earth, ...

Something is hiding inside Kepler-51d, and it’s doing a remarkably good job of it. About 2,615 light-years away in the ...

These three exoplanets are among the least dense ever found, and all attempts to probe their atmospheres have been blocked by ...

Learn more about L 98‑59 d, an exoplanet 35 light‑years away with a deep global magma ocean ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, only a ...

A bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size and orbit are forcing scientists to rethink how planets form.

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

An exoplanet clearly clearing a protoplanetary dust disk was discovered around WISPIT 2 last year. Now a second one has been found there.

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...