This makes it 35 times the mass of Earth and a year on its planet lasts 355 days, the discoverers noted in their findings published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The planet was detected after ...

Scientists discover that large amounts of nitrogen could be hidden in the Earth's metallic core, which would solve a ...

What can ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanets teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical | Space ...

What methods can astronomers use to identify exoplanets orbiting within a young exoplanetary system’s disc of dust and gas ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

A year on the alien world is only a few Earth days.

A new analysis of exoplanets has shown interstellar contamination from nearby stars could change where to search for ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

In new research, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how more than 200 known exoplanets are likely much ...

Shrouded by a swirl of gas and dust, a gas giant, roughly three to ten times the size of Jupiter, was found in a new ...