Located around 100 light-years away from Earth, the exoplanet is shrouded in a thick envelope of steam. This world, designated GJ 9827 d, is around twice the size of Earth, three times more massive ...
The finding represents a 'huge step' toward finding habitable planets outside our solar system An artist's conception of the "steam world" GJ 9827 d ...
A stronomers have found a triple star system with shorter mutual orbits than any previously recorded, breaking a record that goes back almost 70 years. The system serves as an extreme laboratory for ...
A rare exoplanet smaller than Earth has been discovered orbiting one of the closest stars to the Sun, although its surface is far too hot to sustain life, astronomers said on Tuesday. The planet ...
Luke Skywalker would feel right at home on Kepler-16b. This exoplanet is the first known circumbinary planet — a planet that orbits two stars at the same time, just like Tatooine from the Star ...