Earth is surrounded by more than air and a magnetic field. Powerful very low-frequency, or VLF, transmitters built for ...

V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that connection measurable. Future transit-timing and atmospheric observations ...

Beyond the planets’ neat orbits lies a hidden vertical structure of our solar system. From the icy trillions of the Oort ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

The candidate planet, known as HD 137010 b, orbits a sun-like star and is estimated to be slightly larger than Earth ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien worlds: their orbits follow a consistent rhythm. If one planet in a system ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a massive hidden planet far beyond Neptune, using decades-old infrared data. The object’s faint signal and strange motion suggest something big is lurking in the dark.

Space is full of mysteries that can't be easily explained by the layman, and this latest one from a isn't likely to sour anyone on their fascination with space. Scientists from several institutions, ...

Artist's illustration of a strange planet (left) orbits a rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar (right).University of Chicago A planet that shouldn’t exist is rewriting what scientists thought ...

When it comes to planets in our Solar System's habitable zone, one world is too close to the Sun, another is too far and Earth is just right. But maybe things would be different if Venus and Mars ...