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

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

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

At the time, those researchers hypothesized the objects were either a gas giant with an exomoon or a fast-moving ... “If so, it will be the first planet ever found orbiting a hypervelocity star.” What ...

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

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...