When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...
Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.
A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...
The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...
Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...
A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...
Morgan Underwood receives funding from NASA-funded CLEVER Planets (Cycles of Life-Essential Volatile Elements in Rocky Planets) research project. When astronomers search for planets that could host ...
An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in ...
It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...