Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told ...

Dimethyl sulfide is cool—and a potential biosignature—but scientists are urging caution before we declare a plankton party ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

Recently, a new discovery has been made in the astronomy world in the form of a new exoplanet, Wolf 327b, which orbits the ...

but still less than the masses of gas giant planets. The discovery came after a small extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," in a wide orbit around its star was discovered, courtesy of a gravitational ...

Nota (STScI/ESA) Is it likely that our galaxy is home to another hospitable planet like Earth? Many astronomers (Geoff Marcy) say yes. Peter Menzel How do you find an extrasolar planet?

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

at MIT to write his thesis on ‘Retrieval of Atmospheric Properties of Extrasolar Planets’, published in 2009. Dr. Madhusudhan is currently a professor at Cambridge University in the UK.