"Most planetary systems appear as 'peas in a pod.' This is not the case in the TOI-201 system." ...

The strangest part of the TOI-201 system is not that it holds three very different worlds. It is that astronomers can ...

TOI-201 is one of the few systems whose changes can be observed by humans in real time.

What can carbon dioxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international ...

The search for life beyond Earth has traditionally focused on exoplanets orbiting sun-like stars, which is a G-type star.

NASA unveiled a new telescope on Tuesday to scan vast swaths of the universe for planets outside our solar system and probe ...

A newly-discovered planet named Enaiposha, GJ 1214 b, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely ...

A giant planet circling a nearby star has given astronomers a rare look at what a colder, more Jupiter-like world can be like ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

As part of the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020), the Panel on Exoplanets, Astrobiology, and the Solar System will identify and articulate the scientific themes that will define ...