Would it be surprising to find a rocky planet that dates back to the very early Universe? It should be.…
We don't know much about exoplanets with long orbital periods, but we're starting to learn.
Red dwarf stars are the most common kind of star in our neighbourhood, and probably in the Milky Way. Because…
Invisible Glow Finding planets out in the Universe is pretty hard. I say this despite the fact that two planets…
A new study suggests that planets smaller than Earth form much later than large planets, which could point to a…
200 light years away, “super earth” exoplanet K2-141b orbits a star so closely that its "year" is only 7 hours…
Most of the potentially habitable exoplanets we've discovered orbit small red dwarf stars. Red dwarfs make up about 75% of…
Unless you’re reading this in an aircraft or the International Space Station, then you’re currently residing on the surface of…
“This is where we live. On a Blue Dot.” said Carl Sagan when the now famous Pale Blue Dot photo…
We have found more than 4,000 planets orbiting other stars. Life on distant worlds could find us in the same…