Depending on how you look at it, UC Irvine doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, just made an already unimaginably difficult job – finding and observing planets ...

A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.

A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

Our planet is often called the "blue planet," but beneath the surface lies a hidden world known as the "Black Planet",a vast, alien realm deep in the ocean, shrouded in darkness. Covering nearly 90% ...

Astrophysicist Adam Becker has strongly criticized Elon Musk's Mars colonization plan, labeling it as utterly unrealistic. In ...

This makes it 35 times the mass of Earth and a year on its planet lasts 355 days, the discoverers noted in their findings published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The planet was detected after ...

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

Scientists argue that the persistent nature of life on Earth implies billions of planets in the universe could be habitable. This insight reshapes how we understand life's potential beyond our solar ...