Two researchers have found an explanation for why we find almost no exoplanets orbiting binary stars. According to them, ...

Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...

One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or rather, the shortage thereof—in the now 6,000+ exoplanets confirmed to date.

NASA has developed ExoMiner++, an AI tool that speeds up the search for exoplanets by analysing massive datasets from Kepler ...

Why is it so rare to find exoplanets orbiting two stars, also called circumbinary planets (CBPs)? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysica | Space ...

Astronomers have discovered Gl725Bc, the second closest potentially habitable exoplanet to the Earth. The discovery was made ...

Learn why only 14 out of over 6,000 exoplanets orbit two stars, and how Einstein’s general theory of relativity may be to blame.

Discoveries can come from the most unlikely places — at least, that's what one high schooler found out, after finding nearly 1.5 million new objects in space.

Newly reprocessed radio observations are transforming the quiet reputations of nearby dwarf stars. What once looked like ...

In theory, hundreds of circumbinary planets should have been detected by missions such as NASA’s Kepler and TESS space ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet orbiting the nearby K-dwarf star HD 137010 after detecting a single, shallow ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.