The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

What can an exoplanet falling into its own star tell astronomers about the formation and evolution of planetary systems? This ...

As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the chances of finding life beyond Earth.

A new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...

What can exozodiacal dust, also called exozodi, teach astronomers about identifying Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the ...

An exoplanet—also called an extrasolar planet—is a planet ... Its host star is surrounded by icy debris left over from planet formation, similar to our solar system’s Kuiper belt, the ring of icy ...

Very few exoplanets have been directly imaged ... so understanding more about their formation is a crucial step to understanding the formation, survival, and habitability of Earth-like planets in the ...

"The observations also show that these compact discs could have optimal conditions for the formation of so-called ... is consistent with what we see in exoplanet populations around full-grown ...