The curious minds at ColdFusion reveal NASA’s discovery of seven new Earth-like planets in our galaxy. This finding expands ...

A new study using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea serves up the closest-ever view of a planet-forming disk ...

The planet, known as GJ 251c, orbits a red dwarf star 18.2 light-years away in the constellation of Gemini, the Twins. The ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

The NEID spectrometer, one of the most precise instruments for detecting planets, sits atop the WIYN Observatory, a 3.5-meter telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in southern Arizona.

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Astronomers have been scouring the outer solar system for signs of a hypothetical ninth planet for almost a decade, without success. However, we may finally be on the cusp of finding it, experts say.

There are plenty of other stars. There are plenty of planets around those stars. The challenge—for Earthlings, at least—is finding planets that are just the right size and distance from the stars to ...