The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, challenging many of the previously held assumptions about planetary ...

A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a new, exotic class of exoplanets: super-Earths formed at high ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

Despite its unmemorable name, J2322-2650 is a strange system. A Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbits an energetic neutron star, which constantly bombards it with gamma rays. Now, a team of astronomers has ...

Planet formation used to sound straightforward: dust clumps into rocks, rocks grow into worlds, and the rest is detail. A ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it has never been directly observed. You can’t see it, touch it, or hold it ...