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At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how planets form and orbit in the cosmos.

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune orbit most stars. Oddly, our sun lacks such a planet. That's been a source ...

Andrew Winter's team at Queen Mary University of London analyzed fifteen disks around young stars. They used the ALMA array to measure Doppler shifts of carbon monoxide. This technique reveals the ...

Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...

Scientists studying Jurassic rocks in China found that cyclical changes in Earth's orbit affected not only the climate, but ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their atmospheres, ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

Right angle Illustration of 2M1510 showing the orbits of the two brown dwarfs (in blue) and that of the planet (in orange). (Courtesy: ESO/L Calçada) The first strong evidence for an exoplanet with an ...