Astronomers have cataloged thousands of exoplanets, and a pattern keeps showing up: Around most stars, the most common ...
The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...
Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common kind in the galaxy, but because our solar system lacks such a planet, scientists don’t know much about how they form. Astronomers ...
A new report explains a young star system where low-density planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes begin to form, based on new findings from the V1298 system ...
Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...
Astronomers may have finally worked out how planets between the size of Earth and Neptune – which aren't found in our Solar ...
A four-planet system reveals remarkable insights about how planets form and how they change during their lifetime.
A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...
One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...
Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...
A new machine learning model has predicted that there are 44 Earth-like planets in other star systems in the Milky Way galaxy, with researchers from Switzerland claiming that the algorithm at the core ...