A new study published in Nature has revealed a rare glimpse into the early life of four young exoplanets orbiting the star ...

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

Astronomers may have finally worked out how planets between the size of Earth and Neptune – which aren't found in our Solar ...

Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common kind in the galaxy, but because our solar system lacks such a planet, scientists don’t know much about how they form. Astronomers ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

A new machine learning model has predicted that there are 44 Earth-like planets in other star systems in the Milky Way galaxy, with researchers from Switzerland claiming that the algorithm at the core ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't react chemically with each other. But what if some of them do? UCLA and ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

In the Star Wars movies fictional planets are covered with forests, oceans, deserts, and volcanoes. But new models from a team of MIT, NASA, and Carnegie scientists begin to describe an even wider ...