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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dive a little deeper into the bewitching world of exoplanets by putting your questions to the panel during the Q&A following the talks. We are pleased to confirm our line-up of speakers: Giovanna ...

One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 planets, and we have evidence for thousands more. Most of these planets ...