An “extra exceptional” Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the “huge” new world ...

What a surprise to discover a planet that instantly evokes the Star Wars universe! Instead of a single sun, it orbits two ...

Discovered in archival data, the newly identified exoplanet formed after the dinosaurs went extinct. In a finding that echoes ...

In astronomy, there is a concept called "degeneracy." It has nothing to do with delinquent people, but instead is used to ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

The exoplanet, discovered by Northwestern University astronomers, orbits two suns exactly like Luke Skywalker's fictional ...

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

An international team, including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Centre of Competence in ...

Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...