Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope ...

An international team, including University of Geneva researchers, discovered a super-Earth named TOI-512 b orbiting a star ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the ...

The nature and origin of sub-Neptune-sized planets is arguably the hottest debate in the field of exoplanets nowadays. While absent in the solar system, they are the most common planet type in the ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...