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With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...

One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or rather, the shortage thereof—in the now 6,000+ exoplanets confirmed to date.

A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it. The system, known as LHS.

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which examined the sky for exoplanets ...

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you ...

New research suggests Einstein's general relativity explains the rarity of planets orbiting two suns. In tight binary systems ...

Scientists have discovered the fastest atmospheric jet stream on exoplanet WASP-127b. Winds reach nearly 9 kilometers per ...

NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

The balloon-based EXCITE mission measures infrared phase curves of hot Jupiter exoplanets to map temperature and atmospheric composition from long-duration Antarctic flights.

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering previously undetectable stellar and exoplanetary signals hidden within ...