A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) has achieved the most precise study to date of the L 98-59 planetary system ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured what they believe are the very first moments of rocky planet formation around ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away.

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

The future of our solar system has long captivated both scientists and stargazers alike. As highlighted in a recent Live ...

KQ14, nicknamed "Ammonite", was discovered using the Subaru Telescope and is a highly elliptical object with a perihelion and ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

The punishing radiation appears to be causing the planet to shed its atmosphere at a rate of at least 1 trillion grams per second, according to a new study involving NASA 's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study ...

A baby planet is shrinking from the size of Jupiter with a thick atmosphere to a small, barren world, according to a new ...

Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still ...