NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...
"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." ...
As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...
"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.
Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...
Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...
New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...
Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...
Many scientists have long thought that developing planets should resemble the swirling disk of gas and dust that births them.