A newly discovered object in a distant solar system doesn’t fit neatly into the current definitions of moon or planet.
A distant 'exomoon' the size of Jupiter is changing how we think about the cosmos.
The object about 72 light-years away from Earth could be the first satellite discovered outside our solar system.
Researchers in Geneva, Switzerland make an incredible discovery of exoplanets that may be home to extraterrestrial life. See ...
Have astronomers observed the first exomoon, or have they spotted a weird object that could challenge the very concept of planets and moons?
Observations made with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our solar system, ...
A rocky exoplanet 48 light-years from Earth has offered the 'strongest evidence yet' that other planets besides Earth could ...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be the first space telescope to use an “active coronagraph” to block out unwanted ...
Scientists are trying to learn how small an exoplanet with an atmosphere can be. When you purchase through links on our site, ...
Two giant planets lighter than cotton candy are giving astronomers a rare new window into the origins of some of the galaxy's ...
Dreams of finding a sort of Earth 2.0 motivate much of the thinking around the search for exoplanets. But there is more to ...
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL), one of NASA’s flagship astrobiology research teams, has officially joined the SETI ...