Astronomers have identified a giant planet circling a tiny red dwarf star at a distance so extreme that it sits about 690 ...

No Man's Sky players can travel between planets without a starship, as demonstrated by one who built an interplanetary ramp for exocraft jumps. No Man's Sky offers a vast, procedurally generated ...

New planetary formation models from Carnegie’s Alan Boss indicate that there may be an undiscovered population of gas giant planets orbiting around Sun-like stars at distances similar to those of ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

This artist concept illustrates how a massive collision of objects perhaps as large as the planet Pluto smashed together to create the dust ring around the nearby star Vega. As planetary systems ...