Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.

One Piece world called Blue Planet Blue Planet size much larger than Earth Fan estimates suggest size comparable to the sun ...

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope ...