"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Scientists have taken a big step forward in the search for another Earth. A team from the University of Bern and the Swiss ...

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...

During its operating lifetime between 2009 and 2018, Kepler observed around ... different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form," Gilbert said.

Observing young exoplanets offers a unique opportunity to study planets in their primordial ... high-precision transit surveys like those constructed with NASA's Kepler and TESS missions, it's ...