What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Gaia-4b is the most massive planet known to orbit a low-mass star. Also, see an animation for Gaia-5b, a brown dwarf orbiting ...

Pluto is the tiniest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it even smaller than our ...

How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what ...

Astronomers confirm TOI-5573 b, a rare, miniature Saturn-like planet orbiting a small star, challenging theories of planetary ...

A team of researchers has outlined how a new "direct fusion drive" propulsion system could allow us to reach Sedna this ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Pluto will reach its closest approach to Earth and align opposite the Sun on July 25, appearing slightly brighter (magnitude ...

Learn how a new discovery of a giant planet can help scientists refine their theories of how planets form.

According to Live Scence, the planet’s shadow was first spotted in 2021 in data taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

Scientists from Vilnius University (VU) Faculty of Physics, along with members from Poland and other countries, discovered a ...