How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

Team member Nathalie Jones of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) assessed GPI ...

A time-lapse video captures Beta Pictoris b orbiting its host star about 63 light-years away from Earth. Credit: Jason Wang / Northwestern University Some space events happen too slowly to see, but a ...

A distant Jupiter-size planet could have the shattered remains of a smaller sibling in its tow. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A giant planet the size of Saturn orbiting a sun-like star has potentially been identified in our nearest neighbouring stellar system, Alpha Centauri. At just four light years from Earth, Alpha ...

Want life? Don't get too close to a gas giant planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Like huge playground bullies, planets like ...

An ALMA telescope image shows two potential exoplanet bodies that appear to orbit a star on the same orbit. Credit: ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO) / Balsalobre-Ruza et al. Astronomers think they've found ...

In a new study, a team of astrophysicists, including two researchers at CU Boulder, have discovered a small and rocky world orbiting a star far from Earth—similar to our own planet, perhaps, but much ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...