Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

Even if only 1.5% of them host gas giants—a scientist's estimate—that could mean millions of planets similar to TOI-6894b.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected three new hot ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

"By studying these planets, we can better understand how planets form in general, a bit like peering into the past of our ...

For decades it was thought that water was prevalent in the outer reaches of the Solar System early in its history, with ...

I am an astrophysicist and astrobiologist with over 20 years of experience studying extrasolar planets – which are planets beyond our solar system. My colleagues and I have developed a new ...

Exoplanets are the celestial bodies orbiting stars other than our Sun. Their small size makes them difficult to detect from Earth, particularly as they appear much dimmer than their parent stars.

In 2006, updated research led to Pluto being controversially demoted to dwarf planet status by the International Astronomical Union. The reasoning was that Pluto's location in the far-flung Trans ...