Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lots of different exoplanet illustrations neatly organized in a grid pattern. They're all the same size, but different colors. A ...

The new technique depends on disturbances in the material being fed from one star to another as a third body orbits a binary pair. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Astronomers may be starting to get the goods on lava planets. These fiery worlds share a similar density to Earth but orbit so close to their host stars that their scorching daytime temperatures melt ...

Lava planets don’t play by the rules of our solar system. These scorching-hot worlds, some no bigger than Earth, orbit so close to their stars that a full year lasts less than a day. With their ...

The new study suggests that miniture solar systems would not necessarily look like our own. This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the image ...

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has made the first measurements of the day and night temperatures of a planet outside our solar system. The infrared observatory revealed that the Jupiter- like gas ...

An international team including researchers from the University of Bern and the University of Geneva as well as the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS analyzed the atmosphere of ...