CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.

A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

This light dimming was seen in March each year. When scientists traced it, they found TOI‑1846 b in the Lyra constellation in the northern sky. The size and weight of the planet put it in what ...

This makes it 35 times the mass of Earth and a year on its planet lasts 355 days, the discoverers noted in their findings published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The planet was detected after ...

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

Exploring the quest for alien life through Bayesian analysis, emphasizing the importance of asking the right questions in ...

The alien world orbits a dim, reddish ball of gas called a red dwarf star in the northern constellation Lyra. Scientists ...

A new analysis of exoplanets has shown interstellar contamination from nearby stars could change where to search for ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...