This year NASA unveiled new discoveries beyond our solar system, the count has surpassed 6,000, with several thousands more ...
Planetary systems begin in chaos. In their primitive form, many rocky and icy objects are careening through space, smashing ...
SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...
New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown.
Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...