To date, over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered using telescopes on the ground and in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

How any Earth-sized exoplanets exist, and how do we find them? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...

Of the thousands of single-star systems in our galaxy, around 10% are known to have planets. Scientists thus expected about ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have for the first time identified hydrogen sulfide gas in the atmospheres of three gas-giant exoplanets orbiting HR 8799, a ...

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The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

Astronomers want to collect as much data as possible using as many systems as possible. Sometimes that requires coordination ...

For 15 years, one nearby exoplanet refused to reveal its secrets, its spectrum stubbornly flat, its atmosphere unreadable.