The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this search. However, the ...

What a surprise to discover a planet that instantly evokes the Star Wars universe! Instead of a single sun, it orbits two ...

A new research paper, published in the Science Advances journal, has postulated that rocky planets like ours may be far more ...

Astronomers have confirmed a giant planet orbiting a tightly bound pair of young stars, marking a first in direct exoplanet ...

An international research team has discovered a new planet so young that it has yet to emerge from the womb of matter where it is forming. This is the youngest protoplanet discovered to date. It’s ...

More than 10 years after the discovery of the first extrasolar planet, astronomers have now discovered more than 250 of these planets. Until a few years ago, most of the newly discovered exoplanets ...

A model originally proposed out of sheer curiosity by a theoretical astrophysicist might actually help astronomers understand the formation of the most common planets in the galaxy. Six years ago, ...

Daniel Apai receives funding from NASA, Heising-Simons Foundation, Department of Defense, Space Telescope Science Institute, and the University of Arizona, and leads the NASA-funded Alien Earths ...