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 ...

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

In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...

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 our solar system, the most massive moon is Ganymede, which is still extremely small compared to what we are inferring ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

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

Four of the planets, which are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, are bright enough to be spotted with the naked eye in ...