WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Our Milky Way galaxy's most common type of star is called a red dwarf - much smaller and less luminous than our sun. These stars - or so it was thought - simply are not ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

Astronomers have discovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system located 190 light-years away.

We have detected only one transiting planet that has a mass below 10 Earth masses. This world, CoRoT-7b (named after the European Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits satellite) has a radius ...

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Planets this big aren't supposed to be found around red dwarfs like TOI-4860. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A massive, ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet that is showered with so much radiation, its atmosphere eroded away long ago, leaving it bare. Life as we know it can't exist on this blistering world, ...

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...