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

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

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

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. There are likely many more exoplanets with liquid water than previously thought, according to a new science paper published today.

One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common ... arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.00245 ...

Exoplanets are planets located outside our solar ... of an exoplanet traveling around its host star, all contained in a 10-second time-lapse video. Northwestern University astrophysicist Jason ...

Stellar flybys and exploding supernovae can eject habitable zone exoplanets from their solar systems and even destroy their atmospheres or the planets themselves. The researchers examined the 10 ...

No type of star is as common in the cosmos as red dwarfs, but the conditions there are harsh for exoplanets. Nevertheless, some could probably hold atmospheres. Contrary to recent fears ...