In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...

From 520 light-years away, astronomers have caught a glimpse of a nascent massive world still embedded within its star’s protoplanetary disk.

The planet's home star, IRAS 04125+2902, sits just over 520 light-years from Earth, making it quite close in galactic terms.

Scientists have discovered a nearby exoplanet that is just a baby by planetary standards, located 520 light-years away.

An international team of astronomers has reported the detection of a new super-Jupiter exoplanet as part of the Next ...

An international group of researchers including University of Arizona astronomers, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, ...

Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

Phobos and Deimos could have formed from asteroid debris, a new study suggests. An upcoming sample return mission will help test the idea.

How can astronomers determine if an exoplanet has water based on Earth’s geological composition? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers led ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of ...

Ishan Mishra, working in the laboratory of Nikole Lewis, associate professor of astronomy, wrote computer code modeling First's spectral data to simulate how differing exoplanet surfaces might ...