Earth' planet named HD 20794 d, which could have conditions suitable for lifeThe planet has a mass six times greater than ...

Scientists have detected a potential exoplanet using an unusual method — tracking shifts in another planet’s orbit. The hot ...

The dividing line between gas giant planets and failed stars is blurry at best. The isolated planetary-mass object SIMP ...

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy | Space ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an intriguing signal: They found two objects traveling together through the ...

Planets change orbit shape around Neptune’s size. Metal-rich stars help giant planets form. Eccentric orbits suggest chaotic ...

Scientists are discovering more exoplanets, but they’re still figuring out how these planets form. Jupiter-like exoplanets ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...