Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

This artist's concept visualizes a super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

Almost a decade ago, then-grad student Kyle Helson contributed to early paperwork for NASA's EXCITE mission. As a scientist ...

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

Cretignier was previously at Geneva, where he developed an algorithm called YARARA to carefully search the data and pick out ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Her specialty is exoplanets, namely all the planets in the ... seeking evidence that life may exist on the planet. It’s no wonder that Kepler, which ran out of fuel last October, is regarded ...

Initial data suggested its presence, but the signal was weak, making it difficult to distinguish from background noise ... of HD 20794 d was no easy task. Exoplanets are often detected using ...

In the more than 60 years in which scientists have engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), several ...

An international team with Swiss participation has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring in a nearby galaxy.