A recent study has unveiled how chemical elements and powerful winds shape the atmosphere of a planet far beyond our solar system.

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we receive from those stars. These dips can be used to detect an orbiting planet, ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

Astronomers have achieved a breakthrough in planetary science, revealing the complex weather of a distant gas giant with ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

A tiny star is making big moves — whether its accomplice likes it or not. Astronomers have spotted a star just a fraction the ...

The team behind this research reached this conclusion by studying 20 extrasolar planets or "exoplanets" as they crossed, or "transited," the faces of their parent stars using the Hubble Space ...

NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...