When those orbits do not match predictions, something larger must be influencing them. By feeding these movements into computer models, scientists test whether any known planets or forces ... Each new ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on? If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

(CREDIT: arXiv) From the simulation, he extracts two likelihoods ... and often host rocky worlds in temperate orbits. Yet their environments may hinder complex biology. They flare often, bathe planets ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming disk encircling a large exoplanet. The carbon ...

HoYoverse revealed their latest game in the works, as we got our first official look at Petit Planet. Announced ahead of the Tokyo Game Show 2025 weekend, this is the studio's first venture into the ...

miHoYo has announced Petit Planet, a cosmic life simulation game for PC and mobile, with addition platforms currently in development. Recruitment for the “Coziness Test,” which will run across PC and ...

Closed Beta Cosiness Test sign-ups are now live on the official site. Launch confirmed for PC and mobile, with more platforms in development. Players can nurture planets, connect worlds, and form ...

Astronomers found an atmosphere where they least expected it—clinging to an exoplanet that’s too small, too hot and too old to have air, at least in theory. James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...