Ever wonder what happens on the surface of other stars? An amazing animation was released this week by astronomers at…
"Bizarre." "Interesting." "Giant transit". That were the reactions of Planet Hunters project volunteers when they got their first look at the light…
Researchers at the University of Washington's Virtual Planetary Laboratory have devised a new habitability index for judging how suitable alien planets…
Exoplanet Beta Pic b orbiting Beta Pictoris from Dunlap Institute on Vimeo. Just. Wow. The motion of an alien world,…
Scientists say NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered Earth's "older, bigger first cousin" – a planet that's about 60 percent bigger…
With astronomers discovering new planets and other celestial objects all the time, you may be wondering what the newest planet…
Astronomers are calling Kepler-432b a ‘maverick’ planet because everything about this newly found exoplanet is an extreme, and is unlike…
Early astronomers realized some of the "stars" in the sky were planets in our Solar System, and really, only then…
Using data from the Kepler space telescope, an international group of astronomers has discovered the oldest known planetary system in…
Astronomers watching the repeated and drawn-out dimming of a relatively nearby Sun-like star have interpreted their observations to indicate an eclipse…