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

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

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope is a joint ESA/NASA project. It has become one of the most important science ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar to the Sun, and researchers believe it may be able to ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

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