Experts have determined it to be a "super-puff," an exoplanet with a large but extended atmosphere. The most noteworthy ...

Astronomers have recently discovered a fascinating exoplanet named TOI-4507 b, which is larger than Jupiter yet possesses an ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

The first-ever detection of heavy water in a planet-forming disk around a young star offers evidence that the water predates ...

WISPIT 2b was an unexpected discovery made during a five-year research project carried out by an international team of astronomers at Leiden University, the University of Arizona. The find represents ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

There are ‘super-Earths’ and ‘mini-Neptunes’ — categorized because of how their masses compare with those of planets in the Solar System — which are some of the most common exoplanets found so far.

Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...

The discovery of new exoplanets can help scientists understand how planets form and evolve. Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet -- a planet that orbits a star outside of ...