Espinoza is a leader in the new massive James Webb Space Telescope study of rocky worlds, specifically to find out if planets ...

A new paper led by a York University professor and published today in Nature Astronomy introduces a simple theoretical ...

Scientists have confirmed a potentially habitable fifth planet in the nearby L 98-59 system, revealing a diverse collection ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

Researchers studied the L 98-59 system and confirmed five rocky planets. One is in the habitable zone and may support liquid ...

The hunt for potentially habitable rocky planets in our galaxy has been the holy grail of exoplanet studies for decades.

A newly discovered exoplanet may offer astronomers a rare look at how planetary evolution unfolds, revealing the processes ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

It’s a direct glimpse of the hot region where rocky planets like Earth are born,” said Melissa McClure of Leiden Observatory ...

In an unprecedented breakthrough, an international team of astronomers has successfully captured, for the first time, the ...