A unique characteristic of the candidate planet HD 137010b is its ice-cold temperature.

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, explain our readers ...

— -- Goldilocks, like most fairy tales, offers children a lesson and a happy ending. Whether a Goldilocks planet offers astronomers something similar still hangs up in the air, with the story's ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

Discover the fascinating journey of a planet that orbits a black hole. This video delves into the dynamics of celestial ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to play all kinds of havoc on their orbiting circumbinary planets. When you ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...