A doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found by far the youngest known exoplanet using the so-called transit method. The celestial body with the designation IRAS ...

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...

From 520 light-years away, astronomers have caught a glimpse of a nascent massive world still embedded within its star’s ...

Phobos and Deimos could have formed from asteroid debris, a new study suggests. An upcoming sample return mission will help test the idea.

The youngest exoplanets are actually still protected from certain detection methods by dust disks. In a "strange" case, this is now different. A doctoral student at the University of North ...

How can astronomers determine if an exoplanet has water based on Earth’s geological composition? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers led ...

“This result is really important for the next decade of exoplanet research, because eyes are shifting toward this population of stars,” said astronomy doctoral student Sheila Sagear at the ...

Ishan Mishra, working in the laboratory of Nikole Lewis, associate professor of astronomy, wrote computer code modeling First's spectral data to simulate how differing exoplanet surfaces might ...