So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...