Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis, researcher at LMU's University Observatory Munich and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, has ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost ...

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Have you ever wondered if there is life on another planet? Exoplanets may hold the key to this question.

Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...