The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has confirmed the discovery of a new “Super Earth” located about 154 ...

A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

Depending on how you look at it, UC Irvine doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, just made an already unimaginably difficult job – finding and observing planets ...

Astronomers have made a remarkable discovery in the Kepler-139 star system, uncovering an alien planet that had previously evaded detection. The newly identified exoplanet, Kepler-139f, is a giant ...

New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

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 ...

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 ...