"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 ...

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

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

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 ...

And that's before we get to those aforementioned gas giants - massive spheres said to be ten times bigger than No Man's Sky's previous biggest planet. Players brave enough to venture down to their ...

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 ...

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 ...