An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a new super-Earth with an ‘eccentric’ orbit that swings it in-and-out of its star’s habitable zone ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

New observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike ...

"The rate at which the planet is evaporating is utterly cataclysmic, and we are incredibly lucky to be witnessing the final hours of this dying planet." ...

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HD 101581 is the brightest currently known star which has multiple transiting planets with sizes below 1.5 times the radii of the Earth and, at about 7.77 in V-band magnitude, makes for one of the ...

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