University of North Carolina researchers have recently discovered a baby exoplanet that could challenge our current understanding of how planets form in newly-minted solar systems. Designated IRAS ...
A planet has been found orbiting a three-million-year-old star. Better still, it transits across the star’s face from our perspective, offering opportunities to see the starlight passing through ...
Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of the solar system. But after the discovery of Neptune in 1846 ...
The celestial body is the youngest transiting planet found to date. Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in ...
An international team of astronomers has detected a record-breaking planet orbiting a Sun-like star ... more massive than Earth and orbits every 9.8 days. And it might be responsible for what ...
WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Astronomers have discovered a massive newborn planet in its early stages. Located about 430 light-years away in a region called the Taurus Molecular Cloud, 3 million years ...