The "Vulcan planet" that may not exist In a remarkable case of science ... Most known planets orbit stars, but there may be ...

The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

The habitable zone is basically a small space around the star where liquid water can exist. And, since all life on Earth relies on water, habitable planets are closer to the center of their star ...

For years, experts struggled to understand how such a planet could grow so big in diameter but remain so light in mass. As far as scientific models were concerned, the exoplanet shouldn't exist.

Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like planet lurking in the distant ... [+] Kuiper Belt, well past the orbit of Neptune (artistic illustration). There may be an ...

"It's a planet that shouldn't exist," said Vivien Parmentier, a researcher at the Observatory of Côte d'Azur. Exoplanet LTT9779 b was first spotted in 2020, but it's only recently that ESA ...