Turn on a kitchen faucet and watch where the thin, fast sheet of water spreading across the basin suddenly humps upward into ...

The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there's a huge variety of exoplanets out there, so narrowing down the search to focus valuable telescope time on only the best candidates is critical ...

Scientists discovered a mini-Neptune with a heavy atmosphere, revealing new clues about how planets migrate through young ...

Worlds this small and distant are thought to be too cold and have too little surface gravity to hold onto gases. But the findings suggest that icy, rocky objects in the solar system's outer reaches ar ...

Q1 2026 Earnings Call May 7, 2026 8:00 AM EDTCompany ParticipantsColleen Keating - CEO & DirectorThomas Fitzgerald - ...

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The radius gap between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes Mass measurements using transit timing variations (TTVs) N-body simulations to model orbital dynamics and stability Atmospheric loss via ...

Astronomers measured four planets orbiting a young star and found them far larger than expected for their mass, making them some of the lowest-density planets ever directly weighed. That imbalance ...

When I go to the doctor, they measure how big I am. They use a scale to check my weight. They find my height with a measuring tape. But nobody can put a planet on a scale. Or wrap a measuring tape ...

Astronomers have detected a massive, lonely world drifting through the darkness without a star to call home. This Saturn-sized rogue planet was discovered by an international team of scientists using ...