"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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

The Australian research could lead to new insights about which suns could support life on distant worlds. Find out more.

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on ...

At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...

IT'S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been located.

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most definitely don’t Shi En Kim - Reporter An artist’s impression of ten ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS.

TRAPPIST-1, a star that plays host to at least seven Earth-sized planets only 40 light-years away, is the cool kid on the space block these days. Scientists have been gathering all the information ...