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The discovery provides valuable information about early solar system development.

A young planet whirling around a petulant red dwarf star is changing in unpredictable ways orbit-by-orbit.

The tilt in our stars.

'Marshmallow' World Orbiting a Cool Red Dwarf Star

Thousands more potential lenses await assessment.

An extrasolar world covered in water?

Astronomers unearthed a curious signal that could be the star’s first-known world.

Astronomers recently released the most extensive collection of sharp, detailed images of debris disks around young stars. A precision instrument took the images, the...

Astronomers at the University of Canterbury (UC) have discovered new ‘one in a million’ Super-Earth planet towards the center of the galaxy. The planet...

Behold the super-puffs.

A research team that included a UChicago graduate student has discovered a planet that is estimated to be twice the size of earth. The planet...

Yale astronomers have taken a fresh look at the nearby Alpha Centauri system and discovered better approaches to limit the look for livable planets...