This infant world, estimated at around 10 to 20 times the mass of Earth, is one of the youngest planets beyond our solar ...

WASHINGTON - Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only three million years to ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3mn years to form – quite swift in ...

The youngest exoplanets are actually still protected from certain detection methods by dust disks. In a "strange" case, this ...

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

W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of star system HR 8799 have been time-lapsed. The system hosts four planets that are more ...

What can young exoplanets teach us about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

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

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

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...