CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

NASA has detected a mysterious signal coming from a distant super-Earth called TOI-1846 b, a planet nearly twice Earth's size ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

What lies within a toe bean? According to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, mini toe beans composed of gas, dust, and stars. Since kicking off full science operations in July 2022, the James Webb Spa ...

The discovery of a potentially habitable exoplanet by the James Webb Space Telescope sparks fresh curiosity across science ...