If we find one specifically orbiting a circumbinary planet, this may be a ... within their star's respective habitable zone? For instance, could a gas giant that orbits within its star's habitable ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...

A nearby star that may host a planet or two could provide a clue about whether planets orbiting the smallest ... exoplanets which we would hope to host habitable life,” Wolk says.

An artist's impression of the exoplanet Gaia-4b orbiting its star ... as well as the Habitable-zone Planet Finder on the 10-meter Hobby Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas and ...

One of the largest exoplanets to be found orbiting a relatively ... and is a super-sized gas giant with a mass 11.8 times greater than that of Jupiter. "With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a ...