TOI-201 is one of the few systems whose changes can be observed by humans in real time.

The strangest part of the TOI-201 system is not that it holds three very different worlds. It is that astronomers can ...

A newly-discovered planet named Enaiposha, GJ 1214 b, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a ...

What can carbon dioxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely ...

The stars where "Project Hail Mary" takes place, and possibly the planets orbiting them, are very real. We’d expect nothing less from Andy Weir, whose reputation for scientific accuracy helped define ...

A team of astronomers led by Elisabeth Matthews at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a discovery that highlights the limits of most current models of exoplanet atmospheres: ...

The search for life beyond Earth has traditionally focused on exoplanets orbiting sun-like stars, which is a G-type star.

"Most planetary systems appear as 'peas in a pod.' This is not the case in the TOI-201 system." ...

A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

As part of the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020), the Panel on Exoplanets, Astrobiology, and the Solar System will identify and articulate the scientific themes that will define ...