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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

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

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...