Therefore, identifying exomoons orbiting CBPs within their star's habitable zone could hold promise for potentially identifying Earth-sized exomoons orbiting gas giants larger than Jupiter.

Grad student discovers planet orbiting nearby star Madyson Barber, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was working on her thesis when she made the discovery.

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's distance from the Sun. And, as an added bonus, the planet is orbiting ...

An artist's impression of a newly discovered giant planet named TOI-6894 b (top right) orbiting a red dwarf star (center) about 20% the mass of the sun, the image was released on June 4, 2025.

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new exoplanet ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 light-years from Earth.

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how planets form and orbit in the ...

There are currently no other explanations for the effects that we see, nor for the myriad other P9-induced effects we see on ...

Artist's view of exoplanet SPECULOOS-3 b orbiting its star. The planet is as big as the Earth, while its star is slightly larger than Jupiter, but much more massive (Image credit: Lionel Garcia) ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In six billion years the sun ...