A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing link in planet formation.

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

Since the early days of exoplanet discovery, astronomers have confirmed almost 4,200 worlds orbiting distant stars, as well as thousands of more candidates. And with those kinds of numbers, there are ...

It may be made from a former star ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s ...