Learn why only 14 out of over 6,000 exoplanets orbit two stars, and how Einstein’s general theory of relativity may be to blame.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

— -- Goldilocks, like most fairy tales, offers children a lesson and a happy ending. Whether a Goldilocks planet offers astronomers something similar still hangs up in the air, with the story's ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered a remarkable planetary system around the faint orange star WASP-132, featuring two exoplanets that couldn’t be more different. One is a rocky world that completes ...

Astronomers have captured a rare and remarkably close view of a giant planet circling a pair of tightly bound suns, offering one of the clearest real-world echoes yet of the fictional world Tatooine.

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are observing an Earth-like exoplanet that may contain water using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the space agency ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...