Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

The orbits of a seven-planet system discovered in Kepler Space Telescope data has been sonified. Credit: Bishop’s University ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

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

From September 2024 to May 2025, a Sun-like star designated J0705+0612 became 40 times dimmer. Researchers describe the ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

HD 189733 b orbits so close to its star that distance almost stops mattering. The planet was logged in 2005, one of many ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...