Astronomers have found a small, hot planet that might be almost solid iron.
A lot has to go right for a planet to support life. Some of the circumstances that allow life to…
Can planets form around massive, hot stars? Some astronomers think they can't. According to the evidence, planets around stars exceeding…
Some planets orbit their stars so closely that they have extremely high surface temperatures and extremely rapid orbits. Most of…
Using a new type of deep-learning algorithm, a team of NASA scientists have detected 301 more exoplanets in the Kepler…
Mercury is the speed champion in our Solar System. It orbits the Sun every 88 days, and its average speed…
Planets without plate tectonics are unlikely to be habitable. But currently, we've never seen the surface of an exoplanet to…
Recently, astronomers have been finding protoplanetary discs around certain stars. Their discovery has helped kick off a new work in…
It's a hat-trick! Astronomers may have spotted the first ever known planet orbiting not one, not two, but three stars.…
WASP-76b is an ultra-hot Jupiter about 640 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pisces. A few years ago it…