When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

In recent years, the number of known extrasolar planets ... astronomers from the Center for Planetary Systems Habitability, the Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Laboratory, the Center for ...

Compared to our Solar System — composed of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giants — most extrasolar systems appear much ... Trying to detect a planetary signal lost in the "noise" of the ...

Hollywood has made a cottage industry out of imagining biological space aliens, but if intelligent life is out there it’s ...

As shocking as it sounds today, prior to the 1990s, scientists couldn't be certain that stars beyond the sun also had planets orbiting them. Since the discovery of the first extra-solar planet ...

including planetary interiors, surface, atmospheres and magnetospheres for planets within our solar system and extrasolar planets. The MSc includes a substantial research component, which provides ...

compared to just eight planets. An artist's impression of the WASP-49 system. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) We've found very little evidence of these extrasolar moons, however. Finding exoplanets is hard enough ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole ...