The planet's home star, IRAS 04125+2902, sits just over 520 light-years from Earth, making it quite close in galactic terms.

All of Gliese 581's planets have been found through radial ... than the previously reported 3.1 Earth masses, and an orbital period of 32, not 36, days. Nevertheless, this supposed planet would ...

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A planet has been found orbiting a three-million-year-old star. Better still, it transits across the star’s face from our ...

Quite a few comets pass through Earth's orbits every year, but the so-called devil comet earned a rather unique nickname.

Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of stars over time. During the ...

Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space when she made a remarkable discovery. Barber used data from ...

Large-scale disruptions to life may ultimately increase ecological complexity over geologic timescales, though the risk of ...

New research titled "Metal pollution in Sun-like stars from destruction of ultra-short-period planets" suggests that ... each potentially able to inject a planet into the star," O'Connor and Lai write ...

The planet Jupiter's more massive than all the other planets in the Solar System put together ... The planet Jupiter is one of the brightest objects in the night sky. A combination of its orbital ...